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Instead of using a tax on fuel consumption as a way of financing transportation infrastructure, a VMT fee charges motorists based on their road usage measured in mileage. These charges can be either a flat fee (e.g., a fixed number of cents per mile, regardless of where or when the travel occurs) or a variable fee based on considerations such ...
Road pricing was taken up in the central government programme in 2011 when the coalition members committed themselves to examine "the introduction of GPS-based road user charges". [51] Transport minister Merja Kyllönen set up a working group to study "road user charging systems" in October 2012. [ 52 ]
Passenger cars pay a registration fee based on the engine displacement and power output (degressive towards 2014 (66% in 2012, 33% in 2013, 0% in 2014) and environmental criteria such as CO 2 g/km output (increasingly towards 2014). The more CO 2 g/km the car produces, the higher the fee will be. [2]
When the vehicle passes a roadside toll reader device, a radio signal from the reader triggers the transponder, which transmits back an identifying number which registers the vehicle's use of the road, and an electronic payment system charges the user the toll. A major advantage is the driver does not have to stop, reducing traffic delays.
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved. Also included is additional data on the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.
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Overall toll network is 383 kilometres (238 mi) or 0.05% of total road network. Average price in Pskov region having 226 km (140 mi) of toll roads is 2.4 ₽ to 5.5 ₽ per km for cars and 7.9 ₽ to 19.5 ₽ for trucks. This comes close to $0.50 per km for trucks. Ordinary speed limits apply so far.
TDP road pricing is very much based on the road pricing principles outlined by William Vickrey. [12] In such a system, vehicles are charged based on when, where, and how much they drive. [ 13 ] Some transportation experts see TDP road pricing as a fairer, more effective means of charging road users and managing travel demand .