WHY ARE EFFICIENT TRANSPORT POLICY INSTRUMENTS SO SELDOM USED? IN: ACCEPTABILITY OF TRANSPORT PRICING STRATEGIES

Rising demand for road space from more congested roads exceeds the given supply; the excess demand makes bottlenecks an everyday experience for an ever increasing number of road users. More adequate pricing on the scarce resource of roadway capacity through marginal congestion cost road pricing should be used to a greater extent. However, many people are opposed to such pricing schemes. This chapter discusses 10 reasons for such opposition that emanate from economic, psychological, and sociopolitical aspects. Thereafter, 2 proposals are offered on how to overcome the kind of deadlock often experienced. The first suggests the directly democratic participation of the citizenry; the second proposes functionally organized democratic traffic districts.