Road pricing: technologies, economics and acceptability - 8

Road pricing is increasingly being implemented around the world to combat congestion, curb carbon emissions, compensate for falling revenues from fuel duty, improve the efficiency of the existing transport infrastructure, and fund new transport projects.

This book outlines some of the economic theory behind these schemes, indicates the different kinds of road charging schemes that are possible, describes the electronic technology being used, shows that it is available and already in operational use in many countries, addresses how public acceptability can be achieved, and demonstrates that people will accept road pricing if they understand the reasons for using it, and above all, if they have experienced it in use.

There are very few engineering-oriented books in this field, or books aimed at transport planners.

This book aims to fill that gap.