Comments on: What is Congestion Pricing?

By: London to Get Bike Sharing | TheCityFix.com

London to Get Bike Sharing | TheCityFix.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:10:15 +0000

[...] effort to move people out of their cars and onto their bikes dovetails nicely with London’s congestion pricing scheme, which charges drivers a fee for entering central [...]

By: Congestion Pricing in London Improves Public Health, Study Finds | TheCityFix.com

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:09:14 +0000

[...] and Tropical Medicine and King’s College London conducted a study showing that London’s congestion pricing scheme has reduced air pollution in central London, saving Londoners as a whole 1888 extra years of [...]

By: Easing The Pain Caused by High Fuel Prices | TheCityFix.com

Easing The Pain Caused by High Fuel Prices | TheCityFix.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:25:59 +0000

[...] invest money to maintain and expand their mass transit systems. One practical way to do this is to charge car drivers for using the most congested roads and use this revenue to fund mass transit projects. London, Singapore, and Stockholm all have [...]

By: This Website Was Made for Walking | TheCityFix.com

This Website Was Made for Walking | TheCityFix.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:57:31 +0000

[...] is good for encouraging walking as a form of transportation and coupled with other measures like congestion charging and pedestrianization (or should I say pedestrianisation) should help the UK to tackle its obesity [...]

By: Pedestrianization Is London’s Calling | TheCityFix.com

Pedestrianization Is London’s Calling | TheCityFix.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:57:15 +0000

[...] pedestrian-friendly London, the biggest of the half-dozen cities around the world that now impose a congestion charge on motor vehicles entering the city during daytime.London’s congestion charge currently [...]

By: A Congestion Charge for Mumbai? | TheCityFix Mumbai

A Congestion Charge for Mumbai? | TheCityFix Mumbai — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:46:45 +0000

[...] What is a congestion charge? Read Wei-Shiuen Ng’s brief but informative explanation. [...]

By: Making High Gas Prices Less Painful | What did you mean ?

Making High Gas Prices Less Painful | What did you mean ? — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:51:14 +0000

[...] Invest in Mass Transit: Americans are flocking to mass transit in ever greater numbers. At 10.3 billion trips last year, mass-transit ridership in the United States is at its highest level since 1957. To match this growing demand, cities should invest money to maintain and expand their mass-transit systems. One practical way to do this is to charge car drivers for using the most congested roads and use this revenue to fund mass-transit projects and operations. London, Singapore, and Stockholm all have wildly successful congestion-pricing programs that are, counter to conventional wisdom, popular among residents. Mass transit does not necessarily mean rail. Cities can also thrive with low-cost, fast implementation systems like bus rapid transit, which has been done in Los Angeles, Ottawa, Sidney, Mexico City, Curitiba, and Bogotá. [...]

By: Wei-Shiuen Ng

Wei-Shiuen Ng — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:23:30 +0000

The raising of parking taxes or fees should serve as a complementary measure to increase the variable cost of driving, which will ultimately influence driving behavior. A first step could be to eliminate curb side parking, in order to decrease the number of cruising vehicles. The development of GPS technology in congestion pricing is being conducted in several cities. Current technologies might still not be perfect enough to relay real time information to drivers, provide alternative routes that are not congested at a particular time instantaneously, and to charge different prices according to the time, state of congestion and street segment all at once, but this should change in the near future. Electronic road pricing systems are no doubt expensive, but given that the first congestion pricing system in the world started manually, good congestion pricing schemes need not require expensive technologies.

By: Ethan Arpi

Ethan Arpi — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:33:34 +0000

That’s an interesting point. I would be curious to see how much London and other cities have spent implementing their system. With technologies like gps becoming more ubiquitous, there is the potential of putting these in cars and then charging based on where a car travels. This would certainly be a lower cost than using on-street cameras which are also ugly.

By: daver

daver — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:14:32 +0000

I’m glad this is working in London though I just wonder if instead of using all the technology required to make congestion charging work, would it of been easy to raise parking taxes significantly?