Feasibility study of road pricing in the UK - Full report
Table of contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Background to the study
- The study
- The report
- Chapter 2: The importance of public opinion
- What we know
- Overview of attitudes
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Travel today and tomorrow
- The challenge - reconciling benefits and costs
- Congestion is predicted to rise faster than traffic growth
- The costs of congestion
- Congestion reflects how we live and travel
- Tackling congestion needs detailed local knowledge
- Current interventions can contribute
- Better land-use planning should help
- These measures are not sufficient on their own
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4: How would National road pricing work?
- Technological options
- Reliable and accurate positioning technology
- Benefits
- Benefits for social inclusion
- Benefits for the environment
- What do the congestion benefits actually mean for people?
- Use of revenues
- Costs
- Charging structures
- Points to watch
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5: Implementation - Institutional issues
- Key decisions in establishing a pricing scheme
- Current institutional roles
- What has happened so far
- Requirements for a national charging scheme
- A framework for central and local government to work together
- What local government can do
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6: Pathfinders
- Lorry Road User Charging
- Local congestion charging pathfinders
- Conclusions
- Chapter 7: Conclusions and next steps
- National road pricing is becoming feasible
- National road pricing could meet the Government's objectives
- The need to promote a greater degree of consensus
- A number of steps could be taken now
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