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Treasury mandarins piled pressure on the last government to start work on a pay-per-mile road tax, Jeremy Hunt’s former top adviser has said, in a sign officials could draw up similar plans for ...
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Is road pricing inevitable? Listen to media and it would appear so. Scarcely a day goes by without a proclamation from yet another transport pressure group about the clear advisability of adopting ...
Road Pricing in Northern Ireland Under the Northern Ireland Act of 1998, responsibilities for parts of the transport system were passed to the Northern Irish Assembly. There are no toll roads in ...
This week, after 40 years on the drawing board, road pricing will become a political reality, as the government goes public with its radical plan for cutting congestion. It could change the face of ...
Road pricing entails charging motorists for when and where they drive based on usage. It is not a new concept, but the advent of cheaper, more advanced connected vehicle technology offers a ...
When Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) was fi rst introduced in Singapore in 1998, the naive journalist that I was believed it would be a suitable intervention for Metro Manila. Congestion in high-traf fi ...
Earlier this month, the Federal Highway Administration gave tentative approval to New York’s first-in-the-nation congestion road pricing plan, intended to fill financial gaps. Transit officials ...
Enter road pricing. The money-price may be higher, but the time-price is much lower. The roads return more value to society – because more people can actually use them, ...
Congestion pricing is expected to launch in New York City next year, making the Big Apple the first U.S. city to toll drivers on local streets to combat traffic and fund improvements to public ...
Road pricing has been likened to an Orwellian Big Brother scheme, especially after the data harvesting habits of the UK and US secret services revealed by Edward Snowdon.
Road pricing already exists in limited form in Britain, from tolls on motorways and bridges to the congestion zone in central London. A national version would probably mean charging people based ...