Tradable driving rights in urban areas: their potential for tackling congestion and traffic-related pollution

摘要: Congestion pricing as a transport demand management measure is difficult to implement because most of motorists expect deterioration their welfare. Tradable driving rights (TDR), that allocating quotas for free urban inhabitants, could be more acceptable alternative. This mechanism provides also supplementary incentive save whether trips or distance travelled by car, the possibility selling unused rights. A complete system TDR designed in detail, aiming at reducing vehicles-kilometres, order control congestion, same target modulated on basis pollutant emission categories vehicles atmospheric pollution. An assessment carried out Lyon area, which points some welfare distributive issues between and community, when compared with conventional congestion pricing.