Political acceptability is the primary obstacle to implementation of road pricing in many cities. This paper studies the political economy of urban road pricing in its most common incarnation: cordon tolling. We relate voters' preferences for the road toll to its impact on the city's land...

In February 2003, the London Congestion Charging Scheme was introduced and in 2006 a similar policy was introduced in Stockholm. In both cases automobile traffic entering the cordon declined by about 20 percent. This book evaluates these and other similar programs exploring their implications...

The present discussion concerning road pricing aims predominantly on modal-shift due to concentrating on distance- and vehicle-type-dependent road toll. Thus, a regulating effect on equal distribution of the transport volume in freight-transit has been neglected widely. Here we present a...

Benutzungsgebühren für Wegeinfrastrukturen haben keineswegs nur eine Finanzierungsfunktion, sondern stellen auch ein geeignetes Instrument zur Allokation knapper Infrastrukturkapazitäten dar. Da die Opportunitätskosten der Inanspruchnahme von knappen Wegeinfrastrukturkapazitäten von allen...