Tackling Road Congestion
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- Created on: 19-01-13 18:12
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- Road Congestion
- Road Pricing
- Road users already pay a large variety of taxation - fuel tax etc.
- However, taxation fails because it doesn't result in the true cost
- Road users already pay a large variety of taxation - fuel tax etc.
- Users pay a direct charge for the use of a particular road (at a particular time)
- They range in complexities but in the UK mostly congestion charging
- Internalises the externality - the polluter pays
- The rate of the charge is complex to decide
- Building More Roads
- Demand exceeds supply so increase supply
- 'Predict and Provide'
- Underpinning reason for mass motorway building from 1960s onwards
- Increase in traffic has always been greater than increase in roads
- 2010 - ten-year plan to build 360 miles + 100 new bypasses
- environmental concerns
- Short term solution
- Public Transport Development
- Theoretically a substitute but not in practice
- London (90% entering use public transport
- It is popular when it is clean and effective - hence Europe
- Often involve huge subsidies
- Create a move to more environmentally acceptable - sustainable - modes of transport
- Road Pricing
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