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... KEY FINDINGS The state of the practice in road pricing has advanced considerably since the publication of Curbing Gridlock in 1994, at which time congestion-based pricing schemes were largely a theoretical proposition rather than a practice. More recent contributions were the European Commission's 1998 White Paper on Fair Payment for Infrastructure Use, which made a general call for the phased introduction of marginal social cost pricing for infrastructure use, and its 2001 White Paper on European Transport for 2010, which specifically called for the gradual replacement of existing transport system taxes with more effective instruments for integrating infrastructure costs and external costs.
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... "American downtowns," he notes, "can be said to fear road pricing much more than they fear congestion" (see resource paper by Wachs, p. 69 of these proceedings)
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... • Establishing a special commission to examine means for funding transportation infrastructure through a long-range alternative to the fuel tax and consider the capacity of such an alternative to encourage efficient use of the existing surface transportation infrastructure. The commission's work would be expected to build on the findings of the ongoing Transportation Research Board Study of the Long-Term Viability of Fuel Taxes for Transportation Finance.
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... • Create a centralized web-based repository of information on worldwide pricing projects. Possibly to be created and maintained by the Transportation Research Board, this website would include a regularly updated roster of priced facilities, the essential factual information about these facilities, and published papers and evaluations.
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  • transportation research
  • research board
  • highway administration
  • empirical evidence
  • federal highway

  • social cost
  • road pricing


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