Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Dartford Crossing goes electronic free flow, but tolling politics still poorly handled

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On 30 November 2014, manual tolling finally ended at the Dartford Crossing - the 4 lanes each way tunnel/bridge crossing of the Thames that...
Saturday, 8 November 2014

France's nationwide truck toll on hold indefinitely

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Back in July , I noted that the long awaited Ecotax, heavy vehicle road charging system for France, was on hold, because of politics. A...
Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Will Dallas have the world's largest HOT lane network?

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Dallas News reports on plans from the North Texas Tollway Authority, North Central Texas Council of Governments and Texas DoT to embark on...
Friday, 11 July 2014

France's Ecotax distance based truck toll to be scaled back

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As has been previously reported, the French Government had been committed to implementing a distance/size based heavy goods vehicle charge ...
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Thursday, 5 June 2014

Heathrow Airport congestion charge

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As part of aviation policy, the UK government set up an independent commission to examine the need for additional UK airport capacity and r...

Big (tolled) dig for London?

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The biggest tolled urban highway tunnel in the world?  Well certainly the most expensive if it were ever to be built. That's what has...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Australian infrastructure lobbying group and motoring clubs call for radical reform

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I reported on 27 March that Infrastructure Partnerships Australia had published a discussion paper called "Road Pricing and Transport...
Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Belgian road pricing tender goes to preferred bidder status

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The T-Systems led consortium has been selected as the preferred bidder for Belgium's  distance based truck tolling system across main r...
Thursday, 8 May 2014

UK Government to convert Highways Agency into a state owned company, but no change to road taxation

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Whilst it is not strictly about road pricing, reform of management of the national highway network in England is of relevance, if only beca...
Friday, 2 May 2014

US Federal Government to allow tolling of existing Interstate Highway capacity

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In the United States, the Interstate Highway network has long been a source of pride.  One of the few really grand Federal Government proje...