Ideal tolls reduce congestion but increase society’s total net benefits from road travel. Electronic road pricing is the perfect road management tool. It is also the perfect road financing tool.

Congestion pricing is expected to launch in New York City next year, making the Big Apple the first U.S. city to toll drivers on local streets to combat traffic and fund improvements to public ...

If you have a road that can handle 2,000 cars but 3,000 want to use it, you can tell drivers that they may only solo commute (roughly) 2/3 of the commute days.

A common measure is electronic road pricing, which charges motorists fees in central areas during rush hours and is common in markets such as Singapore, London, New York, Stockholm and San Francisco.

Singapore’s road-pricing system is designed to control road congestion in downtown shopping and business districts and on major roads. The current system, rolled out in 1998, depends on a ...

Introduction to the ERP system in Singapore Introduced in 1998, Singapore's Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) is a dynamic toll system designed to keep traffic flowing. It aims to discourage peak-hour ...

SINGAPORE - Motorists who have the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) on-board units (OBUs) in their vehicles will now receive alerts about flash floods when approaching or travelling along affected roads.