Tuesday, 30 April 2013

One way of incentivising a shift towards distance based congestion charging

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The very name "congestion charge" (or tax or fee) turns many people off, and introducing any form of additional charge will autom...

Auckland transport funding report promotes urban road pricing and tolls

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Auckland has 1.4 million people, and its local politicians have ambitious aspirations for expanding the city's highway and public trans...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Denmark abandons lorry road pricing programme

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I wrote several months ago about Denmark's programme to introduce a distance based lorry road pricing system, which would apply to lor...
Monday, 22 April 2013

Mileage Based User Fees - what's going on in the US?

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Mileage Based User Fees (MBUF), Vehicle Mileage Taxation (VMT), distance based charging, distance based road user/usage charges, these are ...
Friday, 5 April 2013

News briefs - Australia, Germany, UK

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Australia - Transurban CEO calls for network road pricing and hangs onto Pocahontas 895 AAP reports that Transurban CEO, Lindsay Maxst...
Thursday, 4 April 2013

Welsh toll road report incorrect, says UK and Welsh governments

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I'm as guilty as the mainstream media for the simple error - I didn't check official sources for the announcement that the M4 relie...

New York Times asks what should revenue from tolls be spent on

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The New York Times  has published an interesting series of opinion pieces on the question of what to do with revenue from toll roads (apol...
Wednesday, 3 April 2013

North Carolina's Triangle Expressway strictly penalising late payment

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North Carolina's Triangle Expressway is the state's first toll road and the first fully electronic free flow toll road in the US b...

UK government proposing new toll road in Wales

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Several British newspapers are reporting that the British Government is prepared to back the Welsh Government (which is essentially a devol...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013

News briefs - Indonesia, Philippines, South Africa, USA

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Indonesia - Citra Marga Nusaphala Persada building more toll roads The Jakarta Globe reports that Citra Marga Nusaphala Persada, the pri...