Congestion Pricing

[WoundedKnee]

Congestion pricing is a variable toll on drivers that rises or falls based on how many cars are on a stretch of road at a given time. The idea is to harness the power of the price mechanism to ration when and where people drive.

Higher tolls during peak hours push motorists to travel at different times, use alternative routes, or collapse multiple trips into just one—all of which cuts down on the time people spend driving. The revenue generated meanwhile can be spent on additional congestion-reducing projects, such as widening lanes or expanding bus service.

What say you about an idea like this?

http://reason.com/archives/2018/04/21/hate-traffic-learn-to-love-con



Caveat: I don't live anywhere near a place that would employ that type of solution, so I don't realy have a dog in the fight.

 

[oggbashan]

What say you about an idea like this?

http://reason.com/archives/2018/04/21/hate-traffic-learn-to-love-con



Caveat: I don't live anywhere near a place that would employ that type of solution, so I don't realy have a dog in the fight.

London has congestion charging for the Central Zone. It works in that it reduces traffic in the centre of London but it puts too much traffic on roads immediately outside the Zone.

London still has significant air pollution problems within the Zone because buses and delivery trucks entering the Zone are almost all diesel powered.

London's charging is done by number plate recognition with CCTV cameras on all entry and exit points. That doesn't work too well for foreign registrations and there are many foreign vehicles in the UK on any day.

Congestion pricing in the UK, and motorway (freeway) pricing has been suggested but it would rely on cell phone or SatNav tracking. My ancient vehicles do not have SatNav nor any electronic location devices. My basic cell phone is turned off most of the year. Even if on, it doesn't have location tracking until I make or receive a call. I, and my vehicles, would be invisible.

 

[WoundedKnee]

That's very interesting.

Thanks

 

[oggbashan]

M25 London Orbital Motorway

Added: The M25 motorway around London, known as the world's largest car park, has variable speed limits that are set and removed by overhead gantry signs.

At present those speed limits are implemented by looking at CCTV images showing the amount of traffic, any incident such as an accident or tailback from an exit, or objects on the road.

It has been suggested that the motorway controllers who decide when to apply the reduced speed limits should use the location signals from cell phones, or those built into modern cars. That would give them more information about average speeds and number of vehicles in any part of the M25 even if visibility was reduced by fog or heavy rain.

Again - I and my vehicles would be invisible to such a system. That wouldn't really matter because the controllers would have enough data from everyone else.

 

[WoundedKnee]

I've seen that somewhere...

Saint Louie, I think.