High Occupancy / Toll Lanes: Phasing in Congestion Pricing a Lane at a Time

A consensus is emerging among transportation economists that the best way to deal with freeway congestion is to charge for driving during peak hours. The main barrier to implementation is political: drastic change is politically unpopular. This paper proposes a way of overcoming the political obstacles by phasing in congestion pricing over a period of many years.

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Year of publication:	1993-11-01
Authors:	Fielding, Gordon J. ; Klein, Daniel B.
Institutions:	Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University of California-Berkeley
Subject:	Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	University of California Transportation Center, Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series University of California Transportation Center
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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