Electronic road pricing (Hong Kong)

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Electronic road pricing (ERP,

ERP in 1998, was the first city in the world to implement electronic congestion pricing.[1][2]
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Hong Kong first conducted a pilot test on the electronic road pricing system between 1983 and 1985 with positive results, but when it tried to implement an actual electronic road pricing, it failed because of public opposition.

Singapore Area Licensing Scheme, a 12-hour toll collecting system enforced manually implemented in 1975, and itself also a world pioneering effort as the first practical implementation of congestion pricing ever.[1][2] However, public opposition against Hong Kong ERP stalled its permanent implementation.[citation needed
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Current developments

New studies conducted in the 1990s and the opposition towards further

Singapore and London
experiences whereby the systems were only implemented after bypasses and alternative routes were available.

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-1-55963-591-2
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-415-28515-5
  3. ^ Electronic road pricing. Developments in Hong Kong 1983–1986

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