BITS EUChina Research Cooperation Seminar

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BITSEU-ChinaResearch Cooperation Seminar

• Road Pricing in European Cities
• Jens Peder Kristensen
• PLS Rambøll Management

Hotel Hvide Hus, 9. December 2003
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Road pricing in European cities

• Overview of situation in Europe
• Experiences from Copenhagen
• ½Some examples from European cities

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What is Road Pricing?

• I will use the following definition
• Paying for using roads

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PROGRESS

• A EU reseach project
• Studies changes in behaviour due to road pricing
• Studies barriers to introduce road pricing
• Studies the factors that influences the public
  view on road pricing (acceptance)

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Copenhagen

• Voluntarily road pricing
• 500 volunteers
• Real money
• Paying a start account
• Volunteers drive and use money
• Volunteers keep what is left

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Copenhagen-2
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Copenhagen-3

• Position of car measured every second
• Automatic charge calculation
• Three rounds with total 500 volunteers
• A control period and a charging period is compared

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The GPS unit used
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One driver
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Driving distance before unit work
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No. Of trips pr road
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Congestion in City
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Congestion in Greater Copenhagen
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Real speed
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Real speed compared to signed speed
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Norway
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Norway-2

• The country in the world with most city road
  pricing
• Road pricing always used to fund specific
  investments
• Trondheim, 7 zones
• Tromsø, petrol tax
• Apparently easy to collect money and therefore
  not always Cost-benefit analyses
• Pays investment, but not operation

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London
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London-2

• 203 fixed video cameras surrounding 21km2
• Cars and trucks reduced by 38
• 60.000 less car movements pr day
• Total traffic reduced by 20
• Traffic delays within the zone is reduced by 30
• Faster travel for pendlers

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London-3

• Car drivers has
• Changed to public transport 50
• Changed to taxi, bicycle, walk or to another
  travel time 25
• Driving around the zone 25
• Public transport more precise
• Traffic growth outside the zone no problem
• 106000 penalties pr month for not paying
• Changes in zone (increase) by 2006

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Rom
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Rome-2

• Annual tax payment 71-340
• 15 reduction in Morning rush
• 10 growth in 2-wheelers
• 2.wheelers polutes a lot
• Tax income 10 mio.
• Penalty income 130 mio.
• Pay pr trip to be introduced in the evening

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Stockholm-2

• Bystyret vedtaget at gå videre med stemmerne
  (51-49)
• Overordnede lovgrundlag mangler
• Takstniveau på 20SEK i myldretid og 10SEK udenfor
  myldretid
• 38 bomstationer
• Ingen taksering på omfartsvej

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Stockholm
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Denmark

• Landsdækkende
• Registreringsafgiften kan reduceres
• Stadig højest afgift i byer
• Er der behov andre steder end København?
• Modstand i byer da pengene går til statskassen
• Uenighed om formål

• Storkøbenhavn
• Mindsker lokaleringsproblemet for København
• Manglende interesser i omegnskommuner og amter
• Indtægter skal komme Storkøbenhavn til gode
• En ekstra afgift og dermed ekstra modstand
• Uenighed om formål