University of Sydney Business School: Recent submissions
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What Type of Road Pricing Scheme might appeal to Politicians? Viewpoints on the Challenge in gaining the citizen and public servant vote by staging reform
Published 2014-01-01The greatest hurdle facing road pricing reform is political commitment. With rare exception, efforts to introduce significant reform in road pricing, aimed at raising sufficient revenue to ensure that road investment and ...Open AccessPreprint -
Multimodal pricing and optimal design of urban public transport: the interplay between traffic congestion and bus crowding
Published 2014-01-01The interplay between congestion and crowding externalities in the design of urban bus systems is identified and analysed. A multimodal social welfare maximisation model with spatially disaggregated demand is developed, ...Open AccessArticle -
Referendum Voting in Road Pricing Reform: A Review of the Evidence
Published 2013-01-01Voting support for congestion charging has a very recent history with, until now, only two congestion charging schemes approved by a majority in referendum voting (Stockholm and Milan). This paper presents a review of ...Open AccessPreprint -
Environmental and social taxes: reforming road pricing in Australia
Published 2011-01-01Pricing of road use, both in Australia and elsewhere, has long been recognised as an area where current arrangements are economically inefficient but also politically very difficult to change. The 2011 Australian Tax Forum ...Open AccessArticle -
Congestion Charging and Car Use: A Review of Stated Preference and Opinion Studies
Published 2012-01-01This paper reviews 17 published congestion pricing studies with a focus on the dimensions of the stated preference or opinion survey, especially the type of charging regime and the structure of the charge. The effectiveness ...Open AccessPreprint