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Road pricing is often considered an appropriate way in which traffic can be better regulated. At the Technical University of Denmark, two research programmes on this topic have been carried out. The pre-study FORTRIN (a feasibility study) has been followed by a real life test, namely the AKTA Road Pricing Experiment in Copenhagen. Here, the city was equipped with virtual cordon rings and pricing zones and 500 test drivers had a GPS-based device installed in their cars testing different road-pricing schemes. This paper describes the technology as well as attitudes and reactions of road users in both studies.
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Herslund, MB. (2008). Road Pricing in Denmark — User Attitudes and User Reactions. In: Jensen-Butler, C., Sloth, B., Larsen, M.M., Madsen, B., Nielsen, O.A. (eds) Road Pricing, the Economy and the Environment. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77150-0_16
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