Are road pricing strategies regressive or progressive? This is a question that has been
confronting researchers, practitioners, and policy‐makers who seek to implement new …

A Note on the Distributional Effects of Road Pricing Page 1 A NOTE ON THE DISTRIBUTIONAL
EFFECTS OF ROAD PRICING By Harry W. Richardson* Since the traffic problems of central …

Road pricing measures are rarely adopted in practice. In this review, we ask why citizens are
not more supportive of road pricing. We identify two difficulties. First, the general public is …

This paper reviews a variety of examples of road pricing covering a wide range of sites,
objectives, and implementation strategies. Objectives range from raising revenues to …

Issues of economic efficiency, equity, external costs, and political feasibility as they can help
determine the distribution of road pricing revenue are examined. Economic efficiency …

The implementation of road pricing has been limited worldwide despite the notion that road
pricing is generally considered to be a potentially effective measure to reduce externalities …

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WORKING PAPERS Transport Infrastructure and Urban Development Department The …

Road pricing1 is a highly controversial topic, and debates about its desirability tend to be
heated. Economists often seem surprised by the difficulties they face in communicating this' …

We tested the opposite predictions of reactance and dissonance theory, two popular
psychological theories, with regard to the responses of car drivers to the introduction of the …

Road Pricing has an established history in the literature of transport economics and has
attracted the intermittent attention of policy-makers for many years. The theory has been …