Road Pricing for Congestion Management: A Survey of International Practice.Synthesis of Highway Practice

摘要

This report examines the experience of foreign countries with the use of roadpricing as a tool for congestion management, a practice usually called congestion pricing. Congestion pricing involves varying the price for road use by the level of traffic congestion to encourage people to travel during less congested hours, by less congested routes, by alternative modes, or not at all. Interest in congestion pricing has been increasing in the United States both because congestion has been growing and because the public and government officials have become frustrated with the limitations of alternative congestion remedies. Foreign countries have had more experience with congestion pricing than the United States, however, and thus their experience is particularly instructive.