When Financial Concerns Shape Traffic Policy: How Economic Assumptions Muted the Copenhagen Payment Zone Issue

Techno-economic Assumptions

“…The first example of this process in this special forum is Birkbak's (2017) article on the implementation of a congestion charge in Copenhagen, Denmark. While this congestion charge was framed by assumptions from neoclassical economics, its eventual sociotechnical collapse resulted from the fact that it, like many other policies, was comprised of (contested) benefits and disadvantages for different social groups.…”