諸外国におけるロードプライシングの導入事例 (特集混雑料金-混雑制御の新しい方向性)

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For the purpose of reducing travelling time loss and environmental impact, the urban road pricing projects to control traffic jam are diffusing in Asian and European cities. Also some of the EU nations are starting toll collection from the cargo vehicles on highway. And in USA, the projects of converting the HOV lane to the HOT lane are expanding promoted by the Federal Government for road pricing pilot projects. Through these projects, pricing schemes have been more elaborated and toll collection technology has been rapidly progressed.<BR>Introducing urban road pricing is one of the challenges today for Japanese cities. Case studies on these projects in foreign countries reveal the strategy to introduce it, which includes the enactments of legal bases for local governments to collect toll and the adjustment of the financial resource system that taxes on gasoline for road construction.