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Road Pricing, the Economy and the Environment

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Editors:
  1. Chris Jensen-Butler
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  2. Birgitte Sloth

    1. Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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  3. Morten Marott Larsen

    1. Danish Institute of Governmental Research, Copenhagen V., Denmark

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  4. Bjarne Madsen

    1. Centre for Regional and Tourism Research, Nexø, Bornholm, Denmark

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  5. Otto Anker Nielsen

    1. Centre for Traffic and Transport, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

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Part of the book series: Advances in Spatial Science (ADVSPATIAL)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Birgitte Sloth
    Pages 1-4

  3. Road Pricing in Europe — A Review of Research and Practice

    • Esko Niskanen, Chris Nash
    Pages 5-27

  4. Road Pricing: Consequences for Traffic, Congestion and Location

    • Lars-Göran Mattsson
    Pages 29-48

  5. Implementation Paths for Marginal Cost-Based Pricing in Urban Transport: Theoretical Considerations and Case Study Results

    • Erik T. Verhoef, C. Robin Lindsey, Esko Niskanen, André de Palma, Paavo Moilanen, Stef Proost et al.
    Pages 49-78

  6. The London Congestion Charging Scheme: The Evidence

    • John Peirson, Roger Vickerman
    Pages 79-91

  7. The AKTA Road Pricing Experiment in Copenhagen

    • Otto Anker Nielsen, Majken Vildrik Sørensen
    Pages 93-109

  8. Experience with Measuring Equity and Efficiency: A Case from Oslo

    • Farideh Ramjerdi, Knut Østmoe, Harald Minken
    Pages 111-131

  9. Transport Costs in a Multiregional Equilibrium Job Search Model

    • Morten Marott Larsen, Ninette Pilegaard, Jos van Ommeren
    Pages 133-166

  10. Evaluation of the Introduction of Road Pricing Using a Computable General Equilibrium Model

    • Knud J. Munk
    Pages 167-191

  11. Efficiency and Equity Considerations in Road Pricing

    • Harald Minken, Farideh Ramjerdi
    Pages 193-206

  12. Modelling the Economy, Transport and Environment Triangle, with an Application to Dutch Maglev Projects

    • Jan Oosterhaven, J. Paul Elhorst
    Pages 207-227

  13. A Systems Approach to Modelling the Regional Economic Effects of Road Pricing

    • Bjarne Madsen, Chris Jensen-Butler, Jacob Kronbak, Steen Leleur
    Pages 229-265

  14. External Effects and Road Charging

    • Jeppe Rich, Otto Anker Nielsen
    Pages 267-276

  15. Assessing the Impacts of Traffic Air Pollution on Human Exposure and Health

    • Ole Hertel, Steen Solvang Jensen, Martin Hvidberg, Matthias Ketzel, Ruwim Berkowicz, Finn Palmgren et al.
    Pages 277-299

  16. Car Use Habits: An Obstacle to the Use of Public Transportation?

    • Berit Møller, John Thøgersen
    Pages 301-313

  17. Road Pricing in Denmark — User Attitudes and User Reactions

    • Mai-Britt Herslund
    Pages 315-330

  18. A Cost-Minimisation Principle of Adaptation of Private Car Use in Response to Road Pricing Schemes

    • Peter Loukopoulos, Tommy Gärling, Cecilia Jakobsson, Satoshi Fujii
    Pages 331-349

  19. Car Users’ Trade-Offs Between Time, Trip Length, Cost and Road Pricing in Behavioural Models

    • Otto Anker Nielsen, Goran Vuk
    Pages 351-374

  20. The Impacts of e-Work and e-Commerce on Transport, the Environment and the Economy

    • Andy Lake
    Pages 375-393
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Economic growth and globalisation create traffic growth, leading to congestion, which again increases travel times and costs. Traffic growth also increases CO2 emissions, air pollution, accidents, and noise. So, clearly there is a need to manage traffic, taking into account that there is a need for transportation; hence it cannot be restricted without costs.

Road pricing, where motorists pay for driving on specific roads, is an instrument that may efficiently reduce the negative impacts. But despite technological development and the efforts of the EU, it is still not widely used. Apparently, more research-based knowledge about the positive and negative consequences of road pricing is required.

This volume is a collection of research papers on the use of road pricing. The focus is on passenger transport, and the papers cover a wide range of approaches, including theoretical modelling and empirical studies of road pricing experience from different cities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Birgitte Sloth

  • Danish Institute of Governmental Research, Copenhagen V., Denmark

    Morten Marott Larsen

  • Centre for Regional and Tourism Research, Nexø, Bornholm, Denmark

    Bjarne Madsen

  • Centre for Traffic and Transport, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

    Otto Anker Nielsen

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