Category Archives: Toll roads

Changes in travel habits in Stockholm County

(August 30, 2006) In order to examine the way in which journeys on the part of the residents of Stockholm County have been effected by the Stockholm Trial, a comprehensive study of travel habits was carried out both before the trial and during the trial. Continue reading

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Evaluation of the effects of the Stockholm Trial on the road traffic

(June 30, 2006) This report investigates what effect the Stockholm Trial has had on road traffic. Continue reading

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Cost-benefit analysis of the Stockholm Trial

(June 30, 2006) This study analyses the benefits and costs to society of the two largest components of the Stockholm Trial: the congestion-charging system and the expansion of bus services. Continue reading

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Stockholm tries tolls to curb use of cars

(March 3, 2006) London began tolling its downtown roads in 2003. The novel plan proved to be brilliant, the naysayers proved to be wrong: Traffic congestion ended as some 70,000 travellers per day switched to public transit, motorcycles, bicycles, taxis and other alternatives. Continue reading

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Tolls gather speed

(May 28, 2005) In almost every country on earth, road networks have been bastions of government control, operating outside the rules of supply and demand, resistant to technological improvements that would lower cost and boost efficiency, and all but impervious to market forces. Continue reading

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