From manual to electronic road congestion pricing: The Singapore experience and experiment

From manual to electronic road congestion pricing: The Singapore experience and experiment

This study reviews the efforts of Singapore to curb road congestion through restraints on motor vehicle ownership as well as user fees. In particular, it traces the history of the famous Area Licensing Scheme (ALS), and then discusses its shortcomings, also the need for Electronic Road Pricing (ERP)...

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Main Authors: PHANG, Sock-Yong, TOH, Rex S.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1997
Subjects:
car ownership reduction
road pricing
traffic congestion
transport economics
transport planning
urban transport
user fees
Singapore
Asian Studies
Economics
Public Economics
Transportation
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/497
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1496/viewcontent/from_manual.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:This study reviews the efforts of Singapore to curb road congestion through restraints on motor vehicle ownership as well as user fees. In particular, it traces the history of the famous Area Licensing Scheme (ALS), and then discusses its shortcomings, also the need for Electronic Road Pricing (ERP), its advantages and disadvantages and the technology involved in this state of the art system. This paper identifies important research questions to be addressed in connection with the first full-scale adoption of ERP.

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