Traffic congestion is the main cost that cars create when they use existing roads. Road use charges are a more efficient and fairer way to cover the cost and help ensure traffic flows.
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A city-wide experiment suggests well-designed road use charges could ease congestion by encouraging people to drive at different times, take other routes or use other transport.
Australians are crying out for political leadership. One way our leaders can redeem themselves is by getting to work on a complete shake-up of how we pay for and use transport infrastructure.
It’s about time Europe ditched the diesels – so what are the alternatives?
Charging people to drive has been the dream of policy wonks – serving politicians tend to see it as political poison. So when federal minister Paul Fletcher raises it, that’s a step forward.
Bigger cities increase wages, output and innovation, but also problems of congestion and pollution. Congestion charges can minimise these problems by dramatically improving traffic flows.
Once a new road opens, people switch back to cars and congestion increases back to a steady-state point of gridlock. For lasting effectiveness, policy needs to include congestion charges and better rail services.
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Researcher in Transport Policy and Governance, UCL
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Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Executive Director, Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and the Economy, University of California, Davis
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Daniel Sperling is a Friend of The Conversation.
Distinguished Blue Planet Prize Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Founding Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
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Policy Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
