scholarly journals Reducing Urban Road Transportation Externalities: Road Pricing in Theory and in Practice

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Anas ◽  
Robin Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Road Pricing ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
Urban Road ◽  
Transportation Externalities

scholarly journals Impact analysis of two kinds of failure strategies in Beijing road transportation network

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 1850005
Author(s):  
Zundong Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyang Xu ◽  
Zhaoran Zhang ◽  
Huijuan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Network Model ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Dynamic Network ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Statistical Characteristics ◽  
Road Transportation ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Road ◽  
Infrastructure Network

The Beijing road transportation network (BRTN), as a large-scale technological network, exhibits very complex and complicate features during daily periods. And it has been widely highlighted that how statistical characteristics (i.e. average path length and global network efficiency) change while the network evolves. In this paper, by using different modeling concepts, three kinds of network models of BRTN namely the abstract network model, the static network model with road mileage as weights and the dynamic network model with travel time as weights — are constructed, respectively, according to the topological data and the real detected flow data. The degree distribution of the three kinds of network models are analyzed, which proves that the urban road infrastructure network and the dynamic network behavior like scale-free networks. By analyzing and comparing the important statistical characteristics of three models under random attacks and intentional attacks, it shows that the urban road infrastructure network and the dynamic network of BRTN are both robust and vulnerable.

scholarly journals Development and evaluation of urban road pricing system based on active DSRC and contactless IC cards

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 190-195
Author(s):  
Yuriko Hattori ◽  
Takeshi Nagata ◽  
Keiji Terasaka
Keyword(s):  
Road Pricing ◽  
Urban Road ◽  
Pricing System ◽  
Ic Cards

Achieving Majority Public Support for Urban Road Pricing

2005 ◽  
Vol 1932 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair Cain
Keyword(s):  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Road Pricing ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Minimum Requirement ◽  
Urban Road ◽  
Bivariate Correlation ◽  
Primary Determinant

This paper contends that majority opposition from the voting public is the major barrier to urban road pricing implementation. The reason that majority opposition typically exists is investigated at the aggregate level by a consideration of the main factors that determine whether an individual will vote in favor of or against such proposals. Responses to a 2003 survey of southeast Scotland's population were used to assess public views toward Edinburgh's road pricing proposal. Majority opposition to the proposal was observed in aggregate terms. A bivariate correlation analysis showed that car usage was the primary determinant of stated voting behavior. Further analysis showed that a significant majority of car users and non–car users agreed that urban congestion was a significant problem that needed to be reduced and that considerable support existed for implementing road pricing as a way of achieving this. It appears that the public dislike the concept of employing road pricing as a demand management measure and would prefer to view road pricing as a means of raising revenue for public transport improvements, which they believe will lead to congestion being reduced. The paper contends that achieving majority support for urban road pricing implementation requires winning the acceptance of voting car users. The existence of reasonable alternatives to car travel was identified as being crucial to achieving this. Car users who would not change their travel behavior and those who would be forced to change their travel time or destination showed majority opposition; those who would change their travel mode or make fewer trips showed majority support. This finding reinforces the hypothesis that providing high-quality modal alternatives to car users, ahead of road pricing implementation, is a minimum requirement for any proposal seeking to achieve majority support.

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