Support for road-user charging strengthens when people are assured that revenue goes into reducing traffic congestion, maintaining transport infrastructure, improving public transport.
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Our fuel tax is only a rough approximation of the cost of using roads and it will get worse.
The benefits of road-user charging are now well established. And including electric vehicles doesn’t have to be a deterrent to their uptake, as New Zealand and other nations have shown.
Sure, the owners of electric cars don’t pay properly to use the roads, but it’s even worse for the owners of conventionally-powered vehicles.
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Swinburne University of Technology
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PhD Candidate, Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure and Digital Construction, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
