Pay your own way: charging drivers as they use the road can successfully manage and restrain car use. But technology and public acceptance could prove serious obstacles
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Planners recognise that road use cannot be permitted to increase unchecked indefinitely, and that long term strategies to manage and restrain demand for car use are required. Road pricing would mean that drivers would be charged directly for use of the road network, rather than indirectly through current transportation taxes. Road pricing systems could involve supplementary licensing, cordon charging or variable charging, but there are problems with seeking a practical method of collecting the charges. However road pricing systems in Singapore have been shown to reduce traffic entering the city centre.
Publication Name: Planning Week
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 1352-8424
Year: 1997
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Who neds houses?: accurate forecasting of housing needs by survey seems logical. So why aren't they used more?
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Housing needs surveys vary greatly and the best ones undertake statistically rigourous surveys carried out by interviews of random samples of people. Some planners use these studies to develop or implement affordable housing policies, but the information should be more widely used. However housing provision determination requires a highly centralised approach, and structure plans are often discouraged from giving locational guidance within districts.
Publication Name: Planning Week
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 1352-8424
Year: 1995
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