This view overlooks the possibility that private investment in the form of upfront lease payments for newly priced roads can be used to enhance the public appeal of adopting that road pricing.

Mr Hunt announced in October 2022 that electric cars, vans and motorcycles will start to pay road tax in the same way as petrol and diesel vehicles from next April. Vehicle excise duty (VED) is ...

Road pricing is a system of charging drivers for their use of the roads, whereby frequent drivers pay more than infrequent drivers. Normally, schemes are skewed to encourage drivers to use less ...

Singapore, Stockholm and London have all had road pricing schemes in place for years. Why? Because they work: traffic levels on average declined 10 to 30 per cent after implementation; traffic ...

Pay-per-mile road pricing is a proposed system where drivers are taxed based on the distance they travel on public roads. Unlike the current fuel tax, which is based on how much petrol or diesel ...

In response, the Transport Select Committee decided in February 2022 that it was in favour of the introduction of a road pricing scheme. However, nothing has been done about introducing such a ...

The Chancellor has been urged to introduce pay-per-mile road pricing to replace conventional motoring taxes, with the latest recommendation suggesting it could generate an £30billion in cashflow ...

Is road pricing inevitable? Listen to media and it would appear so. Scarcely a day goes by without a proclamation from yet another transport pressure group about the clear advisability of adopting ...

Road pricing means charging motorists for using public roads. The main aims of road pricing schemes are managing traffic congestion, reducing environmental impact, and generating revenue. Charges can ...

When Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) was first introduced in Singapore in 1998, the naive journalist that I was believed it would be a suitable intervention for Metro Manila. Congestion in high-traffic ...