Stockholm traffic congestion pricing

Congestion pricing cuts Stockholm traffic by almost a fifth

Congestion pricing in Stockholm, has reduced traffic in the Swedish capital by 18 percent, according to traffic authorities there. The fee-based approach, which began formally in August 2007, has also seen the proportion of green, tax-exempt vehicles rise to 9 percent. The study also found that access to the city has improved significantly with a reduction in travel times on inner city streets and approach roads.

IBM has been the prime contractor on the project, which covers more than 9 square miles of Stockholm, since a pilot version was launched in 2006. It is the largest project of its kind in Europe.

"Traffic has remained substantially lower since the pilot with IBM, which has brought significant benefits to Stockholm residents. The scheme is meeting the objectives set by the city of reducing traffic volumes, improving accessibility for buses and cars, and improving the environment," said Birger Hook, Director of the Swedish Road Administration's traffic registry.

In addition to working with Stockholm, IBM is helping the cities of London, Singapore and Brisbane address their traffic management and congestion challenges.

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• congestion
• Stockholm
• traffic
• jam
• tax
• cars
• registration
• IBM
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[chphik]

my boss right there! yo birger!

[allenhanks1966]

"US traffic is creating 45% of the world's air pollution." Sloppy.

From the EDF website: "The U.S. has 30% of the world's cars, but they account for 45% of global automotive CO2 emissions."

There's a HUGE difference between *45% of the world's air pollution* and *45% of the world's automotive CO2 emissions*!

IBM must not be THAT smart if they are this careless with statistics.

[smirnovslava]

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[cykliststockholm]

Mark, if you knew what your talking about you would know that all parties support the toll-system! And that there is a decent local traffic system that can absorb the increase of passengers. Our biggest problem is that the congestion fees are set to low to make a real dent in the number of cars. What's worse is that they now want to build a huge freeway berried in a 17km tunnel outside of the city, instead of modernising the run down subway and bus system!

[markdelisle]

Propaganda with a capital P. It just caused neighborhoods to deal with the over flow. Do a little research next time before you spread this garbage...