Road user charging and business performance: identifying the processes of economic change

Whitehead, Tim

doi:10.1016/s0967-070x(02)00021-5

Cited by 18 publications

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“…The implementation of RPs can have long-run consequences surrounding businesses [76], employment [77], and residential and work location choices [78]. Although most of these factors are directly related to the corresponding improvements on the transportation system, a complete social welfare analysis should take these into account.…”

Section: Outside-transportation Welfare Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Next Generations of Road Pricing: Social Welfare Enhancing

Rouhani

2016

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This paper offers a broad overview of road pricing from a social welfare perspective. I first examine two common objectives of road pricing: congestion management and profit making. My goal is to provide a guideline explaining how to promote a social-welfare-enhancing road pricing scheme.To this end, we should: (i) consider and improve public transportation systems by providing more environment-friendly transport options; (ii) include tolling profits in our welfare analysis (as opposed to what economists suggest) since residents are the real owners of roads not users, and since some users are from outside the region and so might not be excluded from analysis; and (iii) search for a holistic approach that takes into account system-wide impacts, disutility to users who change their travel behavior (i.e., switch to public transportation, shift their travel, or do not travel at all), and the impacts on land use, employment, and residents.

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Section: Outside-transportation Welfare Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Next Generations of Road Pricing: Social Welfare Enhancing

Rouhani

2016

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“…Especially, congestion pricing can considerably affect labor supply and net wages, according to the charge imposed on trips of different purposes [88] and the redistribution of revenues [281]. Additionally, it has been found to adversely influence urban retail business activity in the short run [295], while there are arguably positive effects in the long run, dependent on the improvements on public transport and urban quality [392,393]. These positive effects may be amplified when considering the impact of congestion charging on time savings and reliability gains as well as the rental and capital values of land.…”

Section: Wider Impacts Of Road Network Pricingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design and evaluation of road pricing: state-of-the-art and methodological advances

2009

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“…He does not, however, link these changes to a negative impact on the city centre retail sector. 1 Whitehead (2002), on the other hand, predicts that congestion charging will have a positive impact on the retail sector of a city centre surrounded by a charging cordon, but in the long-term only, and primarily if money is reinvested in public transport and the improvement of the city centre environment. He mentions that it might take up to 20 years for the benefits to become visible.…”

Section: Road Pricing and Evidence On Its Impact On Retailmentioning

confidence: 99%