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Focus on Meaningful Community Engagement, Investing Revenues, and Collecting High Quality Data to Make Congestion Pricing Equitable.

As cities increasingly turn to congestion pricing, ensuring equity in congestion pricing is a critical concern. To study this issue, a research team at the Institute of Transportation Studies at…
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Lesson
Date Posted
01/25/2021
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Vancouver, Canada   |   New York City, New York, United States   |   Seattle, Washington, United States   |   Singapore, Singapore   |   London, England   |   Stockholm, Sweden   |   Gothenburg, Sweden

Meta-study outlines lessons learned from the implementation of downtown congestion pricing in five cities across Europe and Asia.

This study found five key lessons learned from implementation of congestion pricing. These lessons are: Vehicle exemptions are highly consequential and often increase traffic to a surprising degree…
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Lesson
Date Posted
08/14/2020
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Singapore, Singapore   |   London, England   |   Stockholm, Sweden   |   Milan, Italy   |   Gothenburg, Sweden

The Stockholm congestion tax project reduced traffic congestion by 20 percent and vehicle emissions by 10 to 14 percent in the Central Business District.

Stockholm Congestion Tax ExperienceIn January 2006, Stockholm began a full-scale, seven month trial for urban cordon pricing that used automated number plate recognition (ANPR) technology to charge…
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Benefit
Date Posted
01/31/2013
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
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Stockholm, Sweden

Operating costs of Mileage-based user fee programs can be as low as 7 percent of total system revenue and are more cost-effective than many other types of variable pricing systems.

Tolling data were collected from approximately 15 agencies that operate and maintain a variety of electronic toll collection and variable pricing systems including open road toll systems and managed…
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Benefit
Date Posted
12/22/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Parking Electronic Payment (PM03), Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11), Electronic Toll Collection (TM10), HOV/HOT Lane Management (ST06)
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Vaughan, Canada   |   Milan, Italy   |   London, England   |   Westminster, England   |   Scheveningen, Netherlands   |   Stockholm, Sweden   |   Oslo, Norway

Cordon pricing in Stockholm and Milan contributed to transit ridership increases of 4.5 percent and 5.7 percent respectively.

FINDINGSStockholm, Sweden Cordon Pricing SystemA 2006 evaluation conducted in Stockholm, Sweden examined the impacts of a pilot cordon pricing system on congestion and mobility (TRANSEK AB, 2006).…
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Benefit
Date Posted
12/14/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Milan, Italy   |   Stockholm, Sweden

Cordon pricing contributed to a 14 percent reduction in climate gases in Stockholm and a 14 percent reduction in airborne particulate matter in Milan.

FINDINGSStockholm, Sweden Cordon Pricing SystemIn 2006 an evaluation study conducted in Stockholm examined the impacts of a pilot cordon pricing system on congestion and vehicle emissions (TRANSEK AB…
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Benefit
Date Posted
12/14/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Milan, Italy   |   Stockholm, Sweden

Between 2003 and 2008 operating costs for cordon pricing in European cities ranged from $9.2 million to $238.5 million.

This report covered a small-scale study of cordon pricing systems to help state officials and other policy makers discuss the implementation and operational costs of alternative revenue-generating…
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System Cost
Made Public Date
12/14/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Milan, Italy   |   London, England   |   Stockholm, Sweden   |   Oslo, Norway

Annual operating costs for congestion pricing systems can exceed $161,000,000.

This report examined ITS pricing as a type of road charging designed to reduce traffic congestion. Several examples of international programs implemented between 1975 and 2006 were examined to…
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System Cost
Made Public Date
06/07/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Singapore, Singapore   |   Rome, Italy   |   London, England   |   Stockholm, Sweden   |   Oslo, Norway   |   Bergen, Norway   |   Trondheim, Norway

Assure public acceptance prior to implementation of electronic congestion pricing solutions.

Although the report presented evaluation data from a variety of ITS projects involving electronic congestion pricing, the primary focus of was on policy challenges and public acceptance. Assure…
Content type
Lesson
Date Posted
05/24/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
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Singapore, Singapore   |   Rome, Italy   |   London, England   |   Stockholm, Sweden   |   Trondheim, Norway
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