Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Slate "gets it" on road pricing

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Matthew Yglesias, business and economics correspondent at Slate magazine makes the point, in a pithy and simple to understand article , t...
Friday, 31 August 2012

Tolling of cars in the European Union

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Following on from yesterday's post, the European Commission also released this map of national tolling arrangements in the EU. Tol...
Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Truck tolls/HGV road user charging in the European Union

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Heavy Goods Vehicle tolling in the European Union So which EU countries charge trucks (defined as goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes Gross ...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Opposing sides argue on fuel tax in the UK

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To many motorists, including motoring lobby groups, fuel tax in the UK is high.  It is currently nearly £0.58 per litre (US$0.92 per litre ...
Tuesday, 21 August 2012

News Briefs - Australia, Brazil, China, India

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Australia - Melbourne's car park congestion tax to stay despite low impacts Public broadcaster ABC reports that the Victorian Gov...
Monday, 20 August 2012

Infrastructure Australia recommends road pricing and privatised toll roads

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An article by Tim Colebatch , economics editor of Melbourne newspaper The Age, comments on a proposal by Infrastructure Australia (a federa...
Friday, 17 August 2012

Massachusetts permitted to use Turnpike revenue on other roads

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Generally speaking, tolling can be undertaken either at specific points on a road or continuously along an entire journey.  Conventional to...
Thursday, 16 August 2012

News Briefs - Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Portugal

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Brazil - Canada's Brookfield and Spain's Abertis invest in Obrascon The Globe and Mail reports that Brookfield Infrastructure...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Cardiff Council considering congestion charging

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(No I didn't simply try to create alliteration) I wrote last year about a proposal from the Cardiff Civic Society for the Welsh capi...
Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Brazil to have compulsory toll tags by July 2014 (SINIAV)

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In the past week, Austrian-based toll system supplier Kapsch published a press release announcing it had won a contract to supply tags to ...
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