Tolls on Interurban Road Infrastructure
Subtitle: An Economic Evaluation
By: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Series: ECMT Round Tables -- no.118
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9789282112953
Subjects: Transportation
Description: Tolling has served numerous and wide-ranging purposes across the ages. While initially providing right of way, tolls were later used to finance the building and maintenance of infrastructure, before becoming a means of internalising external costs and managing demand. Nowadays, two main arguments are put forward for the introduction of tolls: to meet funding requirements and to respond to society’s desire for efficient use of infrastructure. However, as this Round Table shows, tolls are not a universal panacea and the introduction of road tolls is a politically delicate issue. This Round Table provides a broad view of both the theoretical aspects of tolling and the practical problems posed by its introduction. It takes a scientific look at what is a burning issue, at a time when a number of countries are envisaging the widespread adoption of electronic tolls.
Table of contents: title: Retransferance and Conflict Potential by Introducing Tolls on Intercity Road Infrastructure by Max Herry; title: Tolls on Interurban Road Infrastructure by Rafael Izquierdo and Jose Manuel Vassallo; title: The Microeconomic Impact of Introducing Tolls on Intercity Road Transport Infrastructure by Lionel Clement; title: Pricing Intercity Road Transport: Experiences in the Netherlands by Piet Rietveld; title: Note on Infrastructure Concession Regimes and Transport Policy by M. Ponti; title: Electronic Toll Collection: Road Pricing on Slovakian Motorways by T. Schlosser; title: Summary of Discussions; title: List of Participants