Electronic road pricing in Hong Kong

Dawson, J; Catling, I

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“…In addition, the potential deployment of a number of (mostly, welfare-improving) road pricing schemes has been studied at the grounds of feasibility, efficiency, revenue generation and acceptability in various urban areas around the world, including several European cities [100,137,174,266,292,313], especially in Copenhagen [183,298] and, at a lesser extent, rural areas [341], Asian capitals, like Hong Kong [85,152,153,163,290], Seoul [190] and Bangkok [200], Japan [243,400,421] and developing countries in South East Asia, Africa and Central America [8,13,75,133,145,177].…”

Section: Practical Applications Of Road Network Pricing Schemesmentioning

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Design and evaluation of road pricing: state-of-the-art and methodological advances

2009

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Section: Practical Applications Of Road Network Pricing Schemesmentioning

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2009

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“…16 According to the Government, the objective of the pilot project is to demonstrate, using empirical evidence gained on site in Hong Kong, that the case for the transport planning benefits from a proposed design is proven in detail; that the technology has been robustly tested; that.the administrative means to implement and run the system are satisfactory; and that the implications of introducing ERPS are fully understood. 17 The basic aim of the ERPS is to establish charges for the user of roads in congested locations at peak hours in order to reduce non-essential trips; this will be accomplished by charging the most congesting and inefficient users (particularly private cars) and establishing a hierarchy of usage by all classes of vehicles in accordance with their social and economic roles.…”

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Issues of the electronic road pricing system in Hong Kong

Fong

1985

Transportation Planning and Technology

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This paper attempts to examine the issues relating to the experiment of the world's first pilot scheme on Electronic Road Pricing System in Hong Kong. A brief review on theories on road pricing and a description on the technical components as well as an analysis on the social, economic, political and environmental impacts of the system are given. It intends to generate further research and analysis on the system's applicability in tackling urban traffic congestion problems.

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“…The first major trial of the technology for electronic road pricing was undertaken in Hong Kong between 1983 and 1985 (Dawson 1983). A volunteer vehicle fleet was fitted with electronic number plates.…”

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Automatic Vehicle Identification: A Test of Theories of Technology

Martin

Scott

1992

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Two contrasting theories-actor-network theory and nondecision making-are separately applied to the same case study, namely, technologies for automatically identifying road vehicles. By this process, the strengths and weaknesses of each approach are highlighted: The actor-network approach is useful for understanding local processes but lacks tools for easily illuminating patterns across countries; by contrast, the concept of nondecision making is useful for explaining the general lack of implementation of technology for automatic vehicle identification but not for explaining variations between developments in different countries. This study highlights the importance of attempting to compare theories by using the same case study.Traditional approaches to technology have distinguished between artifacts (the physical side of technology) and humans and their interactions (the social side of technology). Within this broad framework, many views of the nature and dynamics of technology have been explored: technology as neutral and the related use-abuse model (implicit in many works), technological determinism (Misa 1988;Winner 1977), technology as shaped by society (MacKenzie and Wajcman 1985), technology as determined by society (Dickson 1974), and technology as part of a labor process (Braverman 1974). (Of course, these approaches are not necessarily mutually exclusive or comprehensive.) These and other perspectives have been developed and applied in various ways. The important point here is that they treat society as something to be investigated separate from, or in addition to, artifacts.This assumption has been challenged in the 1980s by what has been called the new sociology of technology. two anonymous referees for useful comments on earlier drafts. We have benefited from discussions with Stewart Russell on power, interests, and nondecision making.

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Electronic road pricing in Hong Kong

Cited by 36 publications

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Design and evaluation of road pricing: state-of-the-art and methodological advances

Design and evaluation of road pricing: state-of-the-art and methodological advances

Issues of the electronic road pricing system in Hong Kong

Automatic Vehicle Identification: A Test of Theories of Technology

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