Importance Of Road Pricing

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Road pricing (also road user charges) are direct charges levied for the use of roads, including road tolls, distance or time based fees, congestion charges and charges designed to discourage use of certain classes of vehicle, fuel sources or more polluting vehicles. These charges may be used primarily for revenue generation, usually for road infrastructure financing, or as a transportation demand management tool to reduce peak hour travel and the associated traffic congestion or other social and environmental negative externalities associated with road travel such as air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, visual intrusion, noise and road accidents. (Wikipedia.)‎

One of the economic principle that underpin road pricing from is to charge drivers for the costs they impose on the road users and indeed the public at large (non-road users) through the generation of air pollution from the emissions of carbon dioxides and other greenhouse gasses. The objective is also to charge drivers for noise pollution and air pollution (dusts) in order to optimise the use of scare resources (fresh air, and road space).
Secondly road pricing is being driven by the main objectives of reducing congestion in towns and cities. In order to reduce the number of high occupancy in city roads individual drivers should be charges with different types of road pricing.

Road pricing is also done to encourage people not to use certain roads at particular times. In some towns certain roads are reserved for particular purposes example for delivery of goods at certain times of the day, therefore to make sure that such goods are delivered on time (without congested by some other private and public vehicles), some charges should be implemented to discourage drivers ...

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... opportunity to get more value for money of both existing capacity and new capacity.
First, tolls represent a more efficient way allocating road space. As mentioned earlier, road use is paid for through fuel duties and VED. These are certainly high, but do not follow a user-pays principle, meaning that people do not ‘get what they pay for’ or ‘pay for what they get’ under these methods

Change destinations can also be viewed as an objective of road pricing because road pricing can redirect people from focusing in particular town but to try finding other location or working areas in order to expand development in the country. If for example there is high road tolls in Windhoek, individuals will be encouraged to find job in some other towns to make a better living and at the same time those towns will also be developed in the process.

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