Planning for road pricing: A multi‐rationality approach

Abstract

Road pricing has climbed high on the political agenda in several countries during the last decade. This can be attributed to a growing concern regarding urban congestion problems, environmental impact of traffic growth, and difficulties in financing new transport infrastructure. Nevertheless, examples of actual implementation are few. This may to a large degree be due to a restricted comprehension of the planning challenges that road pricing actually poses. Literature on transport planning and transport economics gives the basis for a definition of road pricing and a clarification of some emerging planning issues. Furthermore, planning for road pricing is here linked to contemporary planning theory by exploiting a “compound rationale for planning” proposed by Tore Sager and coupling this to pro and con arguments. The communicative elements of road pricing planning are exemplified and discussed, drawing especially on John Forester's theories of planning as argumentation.

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