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Recouping public transport costs from gains in land values
Get PDFMarcus Enoch examines the experiences of Hong Kong and Copenhagen where efforts have
been made to exploit the windfall increase in land values related to transport developments.
He asks whether this approach can be made to work in the UK
Demand Responsive Transport : lessons to be learnt from less developed countries
Get PDFMarcus Enoch examines three Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) schemes which are
being successfully operated in Turkey, Hong Kong and Mauritius and asks what the UK can
learn from their experiences
Lessons from America - the San Diego HOT lane
No full textMarcus Enoch reports from San Diego where the High Occupancy Toll Demonstration
Project has won support from drivers. He asks whether there are lessons to be learnt as
Local Authorities in the UK wonder how to sell congestion charging to the local community
Getting the bus to work : why quality bus corridors work in Dublin
Get PDFDublin has achieved a remarkable increase in bus patronage through the introduction of
quality bus corridors. Marcus Enoch reports on Dublin’s success which is founded on
properly implemented bus lanes. He concludes that the key to persauding car users to
switch to the bus is that the bus journey time must be consistently and significantly less
than that taken by car
Workplace parking charges Down Under
Get PDFAfter initial enthusiasm, most local authorities in the UK have now decided against
introducing the workplace parking levy. But is there a danger of the UK learning only from
its own experiences? Marcus Enoch goes Down Under where both Perth and Sydney have
successfully introduced schemes. What can we learn from these initiatives
Car clubs : lessons from the Netherlands and San Francisco
Get PDFCar clubs are now attracting support from a number of organisations in the UK but as yet
no real champion has emerged. Marcus Enoch argues that the lesson from the Netherlands
and San Francisco is that national or local government support is critical in helping car
clubs to get established
Mauritius – witnessing accelerating congestion
No full textOver the last twenty years or so, Mauritius has undergone a revolution in the way its society
lives and works. Marcus Enoch says Mauritian transport policy makers are already faced
with many of the problems that beset more developed economies, but with less time,
experience and resources to come up with a solution
Managing transportation demand in Singapore
Get PDFSingapore has long held a well deserved reputation for being at the cutting edge in the field
of managing the demand for car use. But in addition to the high profile policies of charging
for road use and rationing the number vehicle licences through a vehicle quota system, the
South East Asian city state has also been innovative with a number of supporting policies
too. In this article Marcus Enoch takes a more rounded look at the Singapore experience
A balanced transport package for heavily-frequented venues
Get PDFRené Teeuwen, Tom Rye and Marcus Enoch explain how an approach to
mobility management at heavily-frequented sites, intended to be applicable across
North West Europe, is being developed by the trans-national OPTIMUM2 project
Implementation issues and the failure of congestion charging in Edinburgh
No full textStephen Ison and Marcus Enoch look at the reasons for holding a referendum and ask what
the failure to get a positive vote means for other authorities seeking to introduce a charge. In 1998 the UK Government expressed
interest in congestion
charging with the publication of
the White Paper on the Future of Transport
‘A New Deal for Transport: Better
for Everyone’, and empowered local
authorities to do so with the Transport
Act (2000), the (Transport (Scotland)
Act 2001) and the Greater London Authority
Act (1999). But, as yet while a
scheme was successfully implemented
in central London in February 2003, with the exception of a single street in
the City of Durham, there is no other
congestion charging scheme in existence
in the UK.
In Scotland the City of Edinburgh
has been looking to implement a congestion
charging scheme as a way of
tackling congestion for a number of
years, but a recently held referendum
on the issue resulted in a ‘no’ vote. This
article seeks to outline why an instrument
which has the general support of
academic economists in terms of an efficient
market-based instrument did
not find favour amongst those who
voted in the referendum. The following
paper provides a brief background to
the proposed Edinburgh congestion
charging scheme, detailing the reasons
behind the referendum and exploring
the reasons for the ‘no’ vote. Finally it
offers some conclusions
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