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The Case for Road Pricing

Further reading and links

The subject of environmental transport campaigning and congestion charging is well covered on the net. I have listed a few sites below which may be useful to refer to.

Road Pricing in the News

• The Guardian's special report on Transport in Britain.
• Alistair Darling's June 2005 speech and linked articles on the BBC.

Transport Policy/Study organisations and journals

• World Transport Policy and Practice - a quarterly academic journal looking at research worldwide on transport planning and measures to reduce dependency on cars, lorries and aircraft.
• Centre for Transport & Society at the University of the West of England - presents a lot of research on-line, including a study assessing public attitudes toward road pricing.
• Environment and Sustainable Transport journal
• The Department for Transport's Road Pricing division
• The Institute for Transportation Studies at Leeds University - study abstracts only on-line.
• Centre for Transport Studies at University College London - again only research abstracts on line.
• The Transport Planning Society
• Urban Transport Pricing in Europe - projects funded by the European Commission.
• The Victoria Transport Policy Institute
• Commission for Integrated Transport - Government think-tank.

Transport campaiging organisations

- Environmentalist

• The World Car-free Network
• Friends of the Earth's transport campaign
• Road Block - network of activist groups
• Transport 2000 - leading UK transport lobby group.
• European Federation for Transport and the Environment - Europe-wide network of environmental transport campaign groups.
• Yorkshire and the Humber Transport Roundtable

- Pro-motoring

• National Alliance Against Tolls
• The Association of British Drivers
• Open Road - campaigning for the UK road building programme to be reinstated.
• Transport Watch UK - picking up from the Railway Conversion League, a campaign to convert UK railways into roads.