Thursday, 16 May 2013

Ohio Turnpike not to be privatised

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As has been previously reported, there had been a lot of debate as to whether it was worthwhile to privatise the Ohio Turnpike.   Accor...
Wednesday, 15 May 2013

The problems of measuring traffic congestion

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Reuters has published an interesting article by Felix Salmon where he examines more closely the basis for the data behind TomTom's con...
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Florida advisory panel proposes distance based road pricing

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Columnist Kingsley Guy in the South Florida Sun Sentinel  has commented on the proposal from the Florida Metropolitan Planning Organizatio...
Monday, 13 May 2013

Jakarta moving forward with congestion pricing

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The Jakarta Post reported that Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, has said that the Government Regulation regarding the financial and t...
Friday, 10 May 2013

News Briefs - Australia, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, USA

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Australia – Survey says distance based congestion charge would change behaviour According to AAP, reported by Perth Now , a survey from...
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Thursday, 9 May 2013

Singapore assessing GPS based urban congestion charging

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The Star Online reports that the Singapore Land Transport Authority has been trialling a GPS based electronic road pricing system on one r...
Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Advocates of distance based road pricing look to Oregon in the coming months

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I've written before about Oregon's efforts to develop a Vehicle Mileage Tax intended for the most fuel efficient vehicles to repla...
Monday, 6 May 2013

Georgia (USA) to introduce pure toll lanes as new capacity

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Most "managed lanes" or "express lanes" in the USA are what I'd call pure HOT lanes.  They are tolled, but High Occ...
Friday, 3 May 2013

News Briefs - China, India, UK, USA

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China - Poll rejects congestion pricing China Daily reports that an online poll (yes I know) by China Youth Daily saw around 75% of res...
Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Spain's growing network of bankrupt toll roads

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Spain was once lauded for having a large network of first class privately financed toll roads.  Now it looks like many of those roads were ...