Road pricing (tolls, etc.) as a means of generating revenue for infrastructure investment has become a major policy option in both Europe and North America. This volume assembles and assesses theoretical knowledge, empirical results and experiences of actual road pricing.

I. Theory.- 1. Principles of Road Pricing.- 2. Road Pricing as an Instrument in Traffic Management.- 3. A Conceptual Framework for Pricing Congestion and Road Damage.- 4. Existence of Optimal Tolls under Conditions of Stochastic User-Equilibria.- II. Empirical Knowledge.- 5. Willingness to Pay for Time Savings: The Trondheim Toll Road Experiences.- 6. An Evaluation of the Impact of the Oslo Toll Scheme on Travel Behaviour.- 7. Congestion Metering in Cambridge City, United Kingdom.- III. Policy.- 8. Road Pricing or Transport Planning?.- 9. Road Pricing: The Public Viewpoint.- 10. From Theory and Policy Analysis to the Implementation of Road Pricing: The Stockholm Region in the 1990s.- 11. Road Pricing: Policy and Options for the Future.- 12. Instruments for Charging Congestion Externalities.- Index of References.- List of Authors.

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