Pricing in Road Transport A Multi-disciplinary Perspective

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.

Contents: 1. Introduction Linda Steg, Erik Verhoef, Michiel Bliemer and Bert van Wee 2. Road Transport Pricing: Motivation, Objectives and Design from an Economic Perspective Erik Verhoef PART I: BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES TO ROAD PRICING 3. Behavioural Responses of Freight Transporters and Shippers to Road-User Charging Schemes: An Empirical Assessment David Hensher and Sean Puckett 4. Travellers' Responses to Road Pricing: Value of Time, Schedule Delay and Unreliability Dirk van Amelsfort, Piet Bovy, Michiel Bliemer and Barry Ubbels 5. Effects of a Kilometre Charge on Car Use, Car Ownership and Relocation Barry Ubbels, Taede Tillema, Erik Verhoef and Bert van Wee 6. Firms: Changes in Trip Patterns, Production Prices, Locations and in the Human Resource Policy due to Road Pricing Taede Tillema, Bert van Wee, Jan Rouwendal and Jos van Ommeren PART II: MODELLING EFFECTS OF TRANSPORT PRICING 7. Transit Market Effects on Socially Optimal Congestion Charging Michael Bell and Muanmas Wichiensin 8. Different Policy Objectives of the Road-Pricing Problem: A Game-theoretic Approach Dusica Joksimovic, Michiel Bliemer and Piet Bovy 9. Optimal Toll Design Problem: A Dynamic Network Modelling Approach Michiel Bliemer, Dusica Joksimovic and Piet Bovy PART III: ACCEPTABILITY OF DIFFERENT ROAD-PRICING POLICIES 10. Acceptability of Road Pricing Tommy Garling, Cecilia Jakobsson, Peter Loukopoulos and Satoshi Fujii 11. Car Users' Acceptability of a Kilometre Charge Geertje Schuitema, Barry Ubbels, Linda Steg and Erik Verhoef 12. Sensitivity of Geographical Accessibility Measures Under Road-Pricing Conditions Taede Tillema, Tom de Jong, Bert van Wee, Dirk van Amelsfort 13. Firms' Perception and Acceptability of Transport Pricing Linda Steg, Taede Tillema, Bert van Wee and Geertje Schuitema PART IV: PAST AND FUTURE OF ROAD PRICING 14. The London Experience Georgina Santos 15. Transport Infrastructure Pricing: A European Perspective Chris Nash 16. Conclusions and Directions of Further Research Bert van Wee, Michiel Bliemer, Linda Steg and Erik Verhoef Index