Road pricing: technologies, economics and acceptability

Content: Chapter 1: Introduction to road pricingChapter 2: The Smeed Report at 50: will road pricing always be 10 years away?Chapter 3: Types of road pricing, and measuring scheme cost and performanceChapter 4: We can't get there from here: ecofiscal policies to address traffic congestion in Canadian citiesChapter 5: The public acceptability of road pricing - a US case studyChapter 6: How road pricing was implemented in Singapore, and planned technology augmentationsChapter 7: Communication and governance challenges in Greater Manchester's 'congestion charge' referendumChapter 8: Case studies of communication and consultation strategies for road pricing schemesChapter 9: Road pricing standardisationChapter 10: The European Electronic Toll Service - EETS - and the REETS projectChapter 11: Standardisation and implementation of ANPR - a practical guideChapter 12: Engineering interoperability in the US: video tolling and multiprotocol tags and readersChapter 13: London Congestion Charging - a personal accountChapter 14: The Swedish congestion charges - lessons learntChapter 15: Moving from conventional tolling installations to open road tollingChapter 16: GNSS-based tolling: standards and implementationsChapter 17: HU-GO: the Hungarian distance-based electronic toll systemChapter 18: West Coast distance charge programs: an open market as the gateway to implementation in the United StatesChapter 19: Four years of Milan's road charge: effectiveness, acceptability and impactsChapter 20: Optimising use - using incentives to address traffic congestionChapter 21: Summary and future prospects for road pricing: open research areas, future work and conclusionsChapter 22: AfterwordAppendix A: Glossary of acronyms and technical termsAppendix B: References and further reading