Road pricing controversy - review of the related argumentation and proposal

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment for the 21st Century

Abstract

Road Pricing is a new economic approach of the transport sector, that can be summarized as the internationalization of the external costs of transport. According to the approach, the users of transport modes will have to pay for the cost their activity imposes to the environment and society. This is to be implemented in the urban scale through the electronic urban tolls. The representatives of the road transport branch strongly oppose to Road Pricing, and broad argumentation has been developed in political debate. These representatives consider that road transport sector is already overtaxed, and even put into question the matter of external costs.