Transport Infrastructure Charges and Capacity Choice
Subtitle: Self-financing Road Maintenance and Construction
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Contributors: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Series: ECMT Round Tables -- no.135
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9789282101094
Subjects: Transportation
Description: Much of the current policy debate has considered infrastructure charges as a form of "fiscal" instrument for managing transport demand. The Round Table analysed the opportunities for setting infrastructure service prices so that they also provide guidance for the supply of services. It discussed the possibilities of increasing the finances available for transport infrastructure investment and maintenance by introducing a quasi-market for transport infrastructure services. The general public impression is that charges are a just another tax increase in disguise.  Infrastructure charging that uses a mix of "fees for service" and capacity expansion criteria is expected to correct this impression, and thus to improve the political acceptability of infrastructure pricing.
Table of contents: title: The Role of Road Funds in Improving Maintenance by Kenneth Gwilliam; title: Budgeting for Road Maintenance by Barry Potter; title: Self-Financing of Infrastructure Services by Eric T. Verhoef; title: Road User Charges and Infrastructure by Georgina Santos