Wednesday, 8 August 2012

News briefs - Florida, Pakistan, Virginia, Chile, Indonesia

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Florida talks about tolling a flyover Tolling a bridge, tunnel, new highway or new lanes is considered to be feasible and worth consider...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

London's congestion charge is a success, but has not solved congestion

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I’ve spent a couple of months considering the article on Streetsblog which has a stark visual representation of car, bus and cycle traffi...
Monday, 6 August 2012

Russian truck tolls: World's largest distance based road user charging system?

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Whilst European countries continue to roll out new distance based truck toll systems (with 3 under development and 6 in operation), and US ...
Saturday, 4 August 2012

Ratings news: LBJ Express, Madrid-Toledo, SANRAL, North Carolina Turnpike Authority, Manila

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Note:  Apologies some of these have been delayed a couple of months as it was a draft article I forgot to post. LBJ Express Lanes - Tex...
Friday, 3 August 2012

Australian positions on road pricing are polar between east and west

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New South Wales:  "Let's look into it" On the one hand, in Sydney, New South Wales, on the east coast, Roads Minister Du...
Thursday, 2 August 2012

Road User Charges evasion in New Zealand - some changes come into force

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For all of the talk of distance based road user charging or VMT as it is called in the US, New Zealand has been quietly charging all vehicl...

"Inevitable" UK will shift to road pricing says Institute for Fiscal Studies report

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Motoring lobby group the RAC Foundation commissioned research organisation the Institute for Fiscal Studies to consider the future of motor...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Macquarie Atlas Roads revenue up in June 2012 quarter

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The Herald Sun of Melbourne reports that toll road concessionaire Macquarie Atlas Roads has stated that toll revenue across its investm...
Monday, 23 July 2012

Policy challenges of VMT in the USA

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Dr. Travis Dunn of D’Artagnan Consulting* has prepared an interesting presentation (that he gave at the recent IBTTA Symposium on Mileage...
Thursday, 19 July 2012

Budapest congestion charge suspended by Hungarian Parliament

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Budapest's plans for congestion pricing look set to be delayed, as the Hungarian National Assembly voted against changing the law for i...