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Road Pricing, Traffic Congestion and the Environment: Issues of Efficiency and Social Feasibility
Kenneth Button & Erik Verhoef
Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1998, 316 pp., L59.95 hb
This book consists of a collection of papers brought together to mark the 75th anniversary of Pigou's ground breaking work on the use of road pricing to tackle congestion, and as such it is appropriate that the papers provide the most comprehensive coverage of the topic in one volume to date. Its publication at this time is particularly relevant with the inclusion of road pricing in the British Government's Transport White Paper and subsequent daughter...