Pricing in Road Transport

by Verhoef, Erik; Bliemer, Michiel; Steg, Linda; Wee, Bert Van

• ISBN13: 9781845428600
• ISBN10: 1845428609
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-08
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Summary

Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a mono-disciplinary perspective. This book shows how a multi-disciplinary approach may lead to new types of analysis and insights, contributing to a better understanding of the intricacies of transport pricing and eventually to a potentially more effective and acceptable design of such policies. The study addresses important policy and research themes such as the possible motives for introducing road transport pricing and potential conflicts between these motives, behavioural responses to transport pricing for households and firms, the modelling of transport pricing, and the acceptability of pricing. Studying road transport pricing from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book will be of great interest to transport policymakers and advisors, transport academics and consultants and students in transport studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Road transport pricing: motivation, objectives and design from an economic perspective	p. 6
Behavioural Responses to Road Pricing
Behavioural responses of freight transporters and shippers to road-user charging schemes: an empirical assessment	p. 29
Travellers' responses to road pricing : value of time, schedule delay and unreliability	p. 64
Effects of a kilometre charge on car use, car ownership and relocation	p. 86
Firms: changes in trip patterns, product prices, locations and in the human resource policy due to road pricing	p. 106
Modelling Effects of Transport Pricing
Transit market effects on socially optimal congestion charging	p. 131
Different policy objectives of the road-pricing problem: a game-theoretic approach	p. 151
Optimal toll design problem: a dynamic network modelling approach	p. 170
Acceptability of Different Road-Pricing Policies
Acceptability of road pricing	p. 193
Car users' acceptability of a kilometre charge	p. 209
Sensitivity of geographical accessibility measures under road-pricing conditions	p. 227
Firms' perception and acceptability of transport pricing	p. 250
Past and Future of Road Pricing
The London experience	p. 273
Transport infrastructure pricing: a European perspective	p. 293
Conclusions and directions of further research	p. 312
Index	p. 321
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