The most relevant cases of traffic congestion control are helpful to understand some key issues of the implementation of road pricing policies.
To reduce traffic pollutions in the central business district, in 1974 Singapore introduced a road pricing policy. In 1998 Singapore changed the road pricing system for an electronic road pricing.
To collect financial resources necessary for complex and diversified set of actions in the transport field, on February 1990 a road pricing policy was introduced in Oslo.
To reduce the traffic congestion and the environmental pollution within the Central City, on February 2003 London introduced the congestion charging scheme; the collected tariffs have been used to improve the public transport. This policy has been quite successful in fact it produced a 20% traffic reduction and a general improvement of the public transport.
Again, to reduce traffic and develop the public transport use, on January 2006 Stockholm introduced a road pricing policy.
In conclusion, road pricing policies are implemented to pursue different aims, in urban and metropolitan areas of different size. |
