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Many transport economists and planners have recently acquired the experience of appearing on conference platforms or at round-table discussions with the brief of persuading a technical or political audience of the merits of road pricing. The power of the idea of road pricing is so strong that, with a little practice, the speaker quickly finds solutions to most of the standard objections that are raised, to the entire satisfaction of the speaker, if not always of the audience.
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Goodwin, P.B. (1995). Road Pricing or Transport Planning?. In: Johansson, B., Mattsson, LG. (eds) Road Pricing: Theory, Empirical Assessment and Policy. Transportation Research, Economics and Policy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0980-2_9
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