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Road Pricing — The Way Forward?

A practical look at the design and implementation of road pricing schemes projects, based on results of the 4-year PRoGRESS project together with experiences from London, Stockholm and elsewhere.

Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London
Tuesday 24th – Wednesday 25th February 2004

Since mid 2000, 8 European cities have been at the leading edge of developing, testing and implementing a variety of urban transport pricing optionsas part of the European-funded PRoGRESS project (see www.project-progress.org).

The results of these projects will be presented at the Road Pricing: The Way Forward in a series of workshops. These will be led jointly byPRoGRESScity representatives and experts from the CUPID project.

The conference had a very practical focus and concentrated on many of the aspects associated with planning, putting into operation and managing road pricing schemes. The conference considered the implications of the PRoGRESS trials/schemes, as well as other international political and technological developments, for the future of road pricing in E