Transport: Road pricing and combating road congestion
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- Created on: 01-01-13 22:15
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2. What is road pricing?
- Road pricing is a system whereby road users pay a direct charge for the use they make of the road network - use of a stretch or road or access to a particular zone.
- Road pricing is a where a flat rate charge is made for the use of a stretch of road or access into a designated charging zone.
- Road pricing is a direct charge for access to a designated urban charging zone where the main purpose of the charge is to reduce congestion
3. Motorists should be charged for the externalities they create - the externalities should be ?
- Internalised
- Taken account of in the marginal private cost
4. Road congestion contributes to air pollution, lack of traffic safety, waste of petrol, opportunity cost of sitting in traffic jams, cost to employers/ business time wasted could be spent producing products. Examples of?
- Negative externalities
- Positive externalities
5. In practice, cars will contain __________ linked to a satellite which will monitor their location and direction.
- Monitoring boxes
- Black boxes
- Silver boxes
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