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Road pricing - Analysis and policies (A historical perspective)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

Pierre-Henri Derycke*
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University of ParisX-Nanterre and GDR EVER (CNRS)
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This paper explains how road pricing and toll charge theory appeared and evolved on the basis of contributions from the French engineer-economist school, from Dupuit to Allais, and of Anglo-Saxon theories inspired by Pigou and Vickrey on decongestion tolls and network tools.

Le présent article explique la théorie des péages à partir des apports de l’école des ingénieurs-économistes français, de Dupuit à Allais, et des théories anglo-saxonnes inspirées de Pigou et de Vickrey sur le péage de décongestion et le péage en réseau.

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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 1998 

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