Executive Summary Mobility and transport N°3 :

Urban road user charging : enabling experiments in France

Urban tolls are often presented as a concrete solution for congestion, the deterioration of the urban environment and the financing of transport policies – problems shared by the majority of European conurbations. However, urban tolls have so far remained the privilege of a few large foreign cities and have not yet been introduced in France. Nevertheless, the conclusions of the Grenelle de l’Environnement (the French government’s environmental round table) in autumn 2007 encourage the development of environmental taxation tools designed to reduce private car use. These conclusions recommend giving local authorities "the power to introduce urban tolls […] in order to regulate traffic […] and finance environmentally favourable actions such as public transport". What would be the benefits of allowing French cities to introduce urban tolls?

Certu’s intention is to propose possible answers to this question here.

Contacts Certu: Nathalie Pitaval Damien Verry

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Key word:

• Fare system
• Urban toll
• Transport financing