Congestion pricing policies: Design and assessment for the city of Rome, Italy

Cipriani, Ernesto; Mannini, Livia; Montemarani, Barbara; Nigro, Marialisa; Petrelli, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.10.004

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“…As it is for mobility habits, by assuming a catchment area of 800m radius for each stop [63], one finds that 75% of the interviewees passes close to, at least, one metro station during his/her home-based trip. Other information regarding Roman citizens' mobility-related habits and activity density can be found in [19,64,65]. Most of them prefer to pick-up the parcel during the afternoon (38%) or evening (33%) and to have the withdrawal option available at least for 24 hours (44%).…”

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“…Investigating crowdshipping in Rome is also motivated by its characteristics: Large extension, complex transit network and congested road network. In more detail, almost three million people live in the city, who perform around 700,000 thousand trips during the morning peak period; congestion causes about 135 million hours lost, while operators perform more than 35,000 loading/unloading operations [18,19].…”

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Public Transport-Based Crowdshipping for Sustainable City Logistics: Assessing Economic and Environmental Impacts

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This paper aims at understanding and evaluating the environmental and economic impacts of a crowdshipping platform in urban areas. The investigation refers to the city of Rome and considers an environmental-friendly crowdshipping based on the use of the mass transit network of the city, where customers/crowdshippers pick-up/drop-off goods in automated parcel lockers located either inside the transit stations or in their surroundings. Crowdshippers are passengers that would use the transit network anyhow for other activities (e.g., home-to-work), thus avoiding additional trips. The study requires firstly, estimating the willingness to buy a crowdshipping service like the one proposed here, in order to quantify the potential demand. The estimation is realized adopting an extensive stated preference survey and discrete choice modeling. Then, several scenarios with different features of the service are proposed and evaluated up to 2025 in terms of both externalities (local and global pollutant emissions, noise emissions and accidents reductions) and revenues. The results are useful to understand and quantify the potential of this strategy for last mile B2C deliveries. Moreover, it provides local policy-makers and freight companies with a good knowledge base for the future development of a platform for public transport-based crowdshipping and for estimating the likely impact the system could have both from an economic and environmental point of view.

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“…Because of variable-toll information issues and relatively high toll-application costs of the past, researchers and policymakers have focused on ''second-best'' deployments, like tolls on a small subset of links or use of areatype or cordon-type tolls (4,5,(39)(40)(41). First-best CP requires pricing of congestion externalities in real time on all congested links, making it impractical in the past or many current settings (28,38,42,43). Noted by Zhang and Ge (44), first-best toll applications can significantly increase information and uncertainty burdens on roadway users, resulting in political resistance to their implementation.…”

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“…Although Van den Berg and Verhoef ( 25 ) indicated that CP can improve social welfare of the majority (55% in first-best pricing) of travelers (even without returning toll revenues to them), CP implementation effects depend largely on drivers’ acceptability and responses ( 26 ) because of the equity and fairness issues ( 27 ). This policy is often rejected by the traveling public because it is considered as an additional tax ( 28 ), or a cost that did not exist previously. Critics often suggest that CP is unfair for traveler groups with lower incomes ( 29 ), because it ignores affordability and burdens low-income drivers.…”

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Traffic and Welfare Impacts of Credit-Based Congestion Pricing Applications: An Austin Case Study

Kockelman

Huang

2020

Transportation Research Record

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This study seeks smart credit-based congestion pricing (CBCP) solutions for maximally improving travelers’ welfare by varying toll levels and locations across the Austin, Texas network. Scenarios evaluated include selecting links with maximum delays by variably tolling bridges and by recognizing congestion externalities across all links. Travel demand models deliver inputs for normalized logsum differences to quantify and compare consumer surplus changes across traveler types, around the region. Results suggest limited tolling locations under four broad times of day can do more harm than good, unless travelers shift out of the PM and AM peak periods or revenues are returned to travelers as credits. When using CBCP across all congested links at congested times of day (with 10% of revenues retained to cover system administrative costs), an average net benefit of $1.61 per licensed driver per weekday is estimated, with almost all travelers benefiting. For example, 95% of the traffic analysis zones’ lowest value of travel time (VOTT) group (VOTT1 = $5/hour) are expected to benefit from the CBCP policy. Tolling at twice the difference between marginal social cost and average travel cost (on each subset of congested links) appears to benefit more people, although tolling high on various links adds to congestion elsewhere. For example: tolling Austin’s highest-delay-producing or “top 500” links is estimated to benefit 98.5% of the zones’ highest VOTT (VOTT5 = $45/hour) travelers, while raising vehicle-miles traveled by just 0.8% (as a result of more circuitous, congestion- and toll-avoiding travel).

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“…For the case of Edinburgh, where the project was approved, a public referendum was conducted in February 2005, after which the public accepted the introduction of congestion pricing in the city [6]. In recent years, many countries and regions studied the political and public acceptability of introducing the congestion pricing policy locally [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].…”

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Influencing Factors in Congestion Pricing Acceptability: A Literature Review

Selmoune

Cheng

Wang

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Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Roads congestion pricing has been considered as an effective solution following the successful implementation of such programs by many cities such as Singapore, Stockholm, and London. In multiple cases, congestion pricing projects have not been implemented, and multitudinous industrialized countries’ governments are struggling to find an effective and satisfactory way of introducing congestion pricing schemes that will not be affected by the public’s negative opinion and resistance. The lack of political and public acceptability can, therefore, be blamed for the nonimplementation of many congestion pricing projects in many cities around the world. This paper reviews eight cases where congestion pricing schemes were implemented or rejected, as well as the major influencing factors that enable congestion pricing introduction and acceptability by road users, discusses public and political acceptance of urban road pricing, and provides a valuable guideline for policy and decision-makers.

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Congestion pricing policies: Design and assessment for the city of Rome, Italy

Cited by 46 publications

References 43 publications

Public Transport-Based Crowdshipping for Sustainable City Logistics: Assessing Economic and Environmental Impacts

Public Transport-Based Crowdshipping for Sustainable City Logistics: Assessing Economic and Environmental Impacts

Traffic and Welfare Impacts of Credit-Based Congestion Pricing Applications: An Austin Case Study

Influencing Factors in Congestion Pricing Acceptability: A Literature Review

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