Congestion and traffic-related pollution are increasingly becoming major issues in towns and cities world-wide. This book deals with carefully selected market and non-market based measures to reduce congestion, and their implementation and effectiveness in tackling the problem.
Contents: Introduction: TDM measures and their implementation, Stephen Ison and Tom Rye; Purchase, circulation and fuel taxation, Stephen Potter; Road user charging, Kenneth Button and Henry Vega; The role of intelligent transport systems (ITS) in implementing road pricing for congestion management, David Gillen; The land use and local economic impacts of congestion charging, David Banister; Tradable driving rights in urban areas: their potential for tackling congestion and traffic-related pollution, Charles Raux; The politics and economics of parking on campus, Donald Shoup; A view of parking policy in an Australian city, William Young; Park and ride, Stuart Meek; Public transport subsidisation, John Preston; The substitution of communications for travel?, Glenn Lyons, Sendy Farag and Hebba Haddad; Travel plans, Marcus Enoch and Lian Zhang; Index.
Dr Stephen Ison, Transport Studies Group, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, UK and Dr Tom Rye, School of the Built Environment/Transport Research Institute, Napier University, UK.