Standard textbook analyses of road pricing tend to assume that users are homogenous,
that there is no travel time risk, and to have a view of congestion as static. The simple analysis
also ignores that real pricing schemes are only rough approximations to ideal systems and that
the general economic context may also have implications for optimal pricing. This paper
reviews these issues and discusses how taking them into account may affect estimates of
optimal tolls.
Road Pricing with Complication
OECD/ITF Joint Transport Research Centre Discussion Papers
