- Integration with Integrated Mobility Management (IMM) solutions that improve ‘traffic supply’.
While congestion charging traditionally aims to reduce traffic demand, next-generation approaches integrate with Integrated Mobility Management (IMM) solutions that increase ‘supply’ – or road traffic capacity. This can be achieved with solutions such as adaptive signal control, which reduces congestion on the city road network by up to 30% by continually optimizing traffic light settings in line with fluctuating vehicle flows. - Expansion of congestion-charging schemes to traffic hotspots across the city.
Often, congestion charging schemes are limited to city centers, which means they only benefit an extremely limited area. Next-generation schemes can scale seamlessly to cover more of the urban road network, improving traffic flow, reducing travel times, and helping to control air pollution. - Reduction of charges to the lowest effective levels.
By integrating data from vehicles and mobile devices, next-generation congestion charging solutions can establish the minimum effective charging levels to achieve your traffic management objectives. While many motorists will always take their cars, up to 5% can be easily influenced to take alternative transport modes by applying even a small charge. - Fair pricing based on journey impact and motorists’ ability to pay.
Next-generation schemes consider the negative impacts of every journey and the economic status of motorists – and set pricing accordingly. This makes congestion charging fairer, while also reducing journeys with the biggest negative impacts on journey times and the environment. - Traffic and journey time SLAs for motorists.
With built-in analytics capabilities, next-generation congestion charging solutions can trigger refunds if travel times exceed pre-defined SLAs. This is a vital tool for ensuring road-users’ satisfaction, and for successfully gaining buy in for schemes with city populations.
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