Road pricing in 5 cities: the ADEPT project

Author

Blythe, Philip T. ; Hills, Peter J.

Author_Institution

Transport Oper. Res. Group, Newcastle upon Tyne Univ., UK

fYear

1993

fDate

12-15 Oct. 1993

Firstpage

637

Lastpage

642

Abstract

In the United Kingdom the issue of electronic road-use pricing has risen to the forefront of the debate on how to manage the growth in road traffic demand in urban areas and, in the inter-urban context, how to finance the construction of new roads and also pay for the operation and maintenance of the new and existing motorway network. Some of the technology options which are (or may become) available for the charging of road-use are discussed. The current status of the EC-funded ADEPT project which is developing a system concept which will be used for both road-use pricing and road toll-collection is described. The ADEPT project will test the different automatic debiting applications in coordinated field-trials in five locations across Europe.

Keywords

road traffic; EC-funded ADEPT project; Europe; automatic debiting applications; electronic road-use pricing; inter-urban context; motorway network; road toll-collection; road traffic demand; technology options; urban areas; Cities and towns; Europe; Financial management; Operations research; Poles and towers; Pricing; Road vehicles; Telecommunication traffic; Urban areas; Vehicle driving;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the IEEE-IEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1235-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VNIS.1993.585711

Filename

585711