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Optimising road maintenance : prepared for the roundtable on sustainable road funding, 25-26 October 2012

Harvey, Mark O. - 2012

(Dekker 1996). For a given road segment, choices have to be made between alternative treatment types and the times to …

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Assessing the net overall distributive effect of a congestion charge

Anable, Jillian; Goodwin, Phil - 2018

social vulnerability to road user charges, using unique data sets available in the UK. Assessing distributional effects of … road pricing or congestion charging schemes requires evaluating distributional patterns: who receives the benefits of …

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Long-term effects of the Swedish congestion charges

Börjesson, Maria - 2018

This paper summarises the state of research on the long-term effects of congestion charging in Stockholm and Gothenberg. Sweden's two largest cities introduced time-of-day dependent, cordon-based congestion charging systems in 2006 and 2013. Public support for congestion charging initially...

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Reforming private and public urban transport pricing

Proost, Stef - 2018

effect of such pricing policy on cities with and without road pricing. …

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Road haulage charges and taxes : summary analysis and data tables 1998-2012

Hylén, Bertil; Kauppila, Jari; Chong, Edouard - 2013

The International Transport Forum at the OECD has collected data on various taxes and charges levied on road haulage … 2008. These data allow for comparison of road freight transport fiscal regimes in different countries in quantitative terms … recovery of road infrastructure by relating all the various taxes and charges levied on transport activities to costs. The 2003 …

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Micromobility Policies for Sustainable Transport : Bogotá and Mexico City

International Transport Forum - 2021

This paper analyses regulations that support non-motorised mobility in Bogotá and Mexico City. It reviews the promotion of bicycles as a sustainable alternative to cars and the rapid implementation of cycling lanes as a substitute for public transport under the Covid-19 crisis. It also...

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Planning and Designing Transport Systems to Ensure Safe Travel for Women

Tiwari, Geetam - 2014

Safe travel for all road users is a prerequisite for ensuring sustainable and inclusive cities. Providing safe …

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Measuring Integration and Urban Sustainability with Indicators : Monitoring Progress towards Integrated Public Transport

Olofsson, Zsuzsanna - 2017

This paper proposes a framework to monitor progress towards improved integration in public transport. The framework adapts some elements of Transport Sustainability Barometer (TSB) which is a tool to assess transport sustainability in Swedish cities. The suggested indicator set follows the...

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Shifting towards Low Carbon Mobility Systems

Aguilar Jaber, Aimée - 2015

Private motorised vehicles account today for 90% of total surface transport1 CO2 emissions. Car fleets are growing rapidly in many cities in the developing world, where population and income growth will be concentrated in the coming decades. For example, whilst urban agglomerations with more...

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Understanding urban travel behaviour by gender for efficient and equitable transport policies

Ng, Wei-shiuen; Acker, Ashley - 2018

Gender is one of the key socio-demographic variables that can influence travel behaviour, but it is often the least understood. Understanding travel behaviour by gender will help better design transport policies that are efficient and equitable. Due to the gendered division of work in...

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