Road User Charges : Current Practice and Perspectives in Central and Eastern Europe

This paper covers the most commonly used means to charge road users, including fuel taxes, vehicle taxes, vignettes and tolls. It presents a brief survey of road user charging systems in selected European countries and a more detailed overview of c...

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Main Authors: Queiroz, Cesar, Rdzanowska, Barbara, Garbarczyk, Robert, Audige, Michel
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
BUS
CAR
GPS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/11/10079326/road-user-charges-current-practice-perspectives-central-eastern-europe
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17463
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Summary:This paper covers the most commonly used means to charge road users, including fuel taxes, vehicle taxes, vignettes and tolls. It presents a brief survey of road user charging systems in selected European countries and a more detailed overview of current status and perspectives of road user charges in Poland. Consideration is also given to private financing of roads through different forms of public-private partnerships (PPP), including a review of potential applications of the World Bank toolkit for PPP in highways as an instrument to help decision makers and practitioners to define the best PPP approach for a specific country.