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Setting the Stage
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Robert E Skinner, Jr., Executive Director of the Transportation Research Board (TRB)
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It is also noteworthy that these applications generally involve "pure pricing," under which every motorist pays a fee, as opposed to the "choice pricing" of U.S.-style HOT lanes or express lanes, under which motorists can avoid the fee if they choose the free, slower lanes. Providing the charge to the conference, Mr.
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In the United States, the first motor fuel tax was instituted in 1918, in the state of Oregon. The legislature had preferred a toll-based system of finance, but at the time it was rejected because of the cost of constructing booths and collecting the tolls.
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A review of European and Asian developments in road pricing since 1975, when Singapore established the world's first area pricing system, reveals three major approaches: (a) urban applications through area pricing in center cities, (b)
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