London and her Chelsea Tractors have it. Singapore and Stockholm, too. Mayor Bloomberg pushed for it in New York. What's the truth about the effectiveness of so-called congestion pricing -- surcharges paid for rush-hour and other trips into particular sections of cities?
Liisa Ecola and Thomas Light of RAND have a new report out regarding the matter, Equity and Congestion Pricing: A Review of the Evidence.
A download is available free-of-charge here.
This report follows on the heels of a recent RAND work which discussed, in part, the possibility of congestion pricing in Los Angles. More about that work is here.
Illustration copyright and courtesy Richard Nielsen 2009
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