Restraining car traffic in European cities: An emerging role for road pricing

Jones, Peter M.; Hervik, Arild

doi:10.1016/0965-8564(92)90008-u

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“…Some street management measures will have more direct and stronger influence on soundscape, for example, traffic restrictions. Traffic restrictions are regulatory controls on access of motor vehicles to parts of the road network (Jones & Hervik, 1992). There are varied degrees of restrictions, from limited access of vehicles of certain categories at certain time periods to permanent and complete ban of motor vehicles (Jones & Hervik, 1992).…”

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confidence: 99%

How do shared-street design and traffic restriction improve urban soundscape and human experience? —An online survey with virtual reality

Jiang

Masullo

Maffei

et al. 2018

Building and Environment

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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How do shared-street design and traffic restriction improve urban soundscape and human experience? —An online survey with virtual reality

Jiang

Masullo

Maffei

et al. 2018

Building and Environment

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“…The most inelastic demands were for tunnels and bridges. Long-term elasticity estimates were always higher in absolute value than short-term estimates and (1984), quoted by Oum et al (1992) Bridges −0.14 to −0.29 Baye et al (1992) Entire system −0.6 Goodwin (1988), quoted in May (1992) Average −0.45 Ribas et al (1988) Freeways −0.15 to −0.48 Jones and Hervik (1992) Freeways −0.20 to −0.50 Harvey (1994) Highways −0.10 Mauchan and Bonsall (1995) Freeways −0.40 Hirschman et al (1995) Bridges and tunnels −0.10 Gifford and Talkington (1996) Bridges Estimates of price elasticity of demand afternoon peak-hour elasticities tended to be higher than those for the morning rush.…”

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Estimates of price elasticity of demand for urban freeway use with high-frequency control variables: the case of Santiago, Chile

2015

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Estimates are presented of toll and fuel price elasticities of demand for urban freeway use in Santiago, Chile. High-frequency toll and vehicle data were collected from four urban freeways for different route segments and times of day. Estimation was performed using log-linear regression models whose explanatory variables were tolls, fuel prices, city traffic levels and sets of dichotomous variables to control for daily, weekly and monthly seasonality. City traffic is a high frequency control of the activity level of the city. The elasticities to changes in tolls and fuel were all low in absolute value. The toll elasticities were below 0.05 for two freeways and 0.16 for the third, while for the fourth, which had more alternative routes, it was 0.47. The fuel price elasticities were also heterogeneous, with values of approximately 0.45 for two freeways and 0.21 for the third whereas for the fourth, which had the fewest alternatives, it was 0.07.

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“…Jones and Hervik define road pricing as "policies that impose direct charges on road use", regardless of the goals of the scheme or the targeted user groups [10]. In fact, a clear difference between gas tax and road pricing is related to the fact that gas tax is not a direct fee; when idling their engines (before start moving), drivers are still paying for gas taxes, while RP is a direct fee for road usage.…”

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Next Generations of Road Pricing: Social Welfare Enhancing

Rouhani

2016

Sustainability

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This paper offers a broad overview of road pricing from a social welfare perspective. I first examine two common objectives of road pricing: congestion management and profit making. My goal is to provide a guideline explaining how to promote a social-welfare-enhancing road pricing scheme.To this end, we should: (i) consider and improve public transportation systems by providing more environment-friendly transport options; (ii) include tolling profits in our welfare analysis (as opposed to what economists suggest) since residents are the real owners of roads not users, and since some users are from outside the region and so might not be excluded from analysis; and (iii) search for a holistic approach that takes into account system-wide impacts, disutility to users who change their travel behavior (i.e., switch to public transportation, shift their travel, or do not travel at all), and the impacts on land use, employment, and residents.

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Restraining car traffic in European cities: An emerging role for road pricing

Cited by 35 publications

References 4 publications

How do shared-street design and traffic restriction improve urban soundscape and human experience? —An online survey with virtual reality

How do shared-street design and traffic restriction improve urban soundscape and human experience? —An online survey with virtual reality

Estimates of price elasticity of demand for urban freeway use with high-frequency control variables: the case of Santiago, Chile

Next Generations of Road Pricing: Social Welfare Enhancing

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