road pricing

English

Noun

road pricing (uncountable)

1. (transport) The practice of charging users or owners of motor vehicles for the use of the roads they travel on, whether it be on busier roads or at busier times, or as a method of discouraging road congestion.
   • 2021 September 22, Christian Wolmar, “A minimal contribution to decarbonisation targets”, in RAIL, number 940, page 77:

     If it was a part of a much wider range of policies designed to reduce the impact of transport - ranging from road pricing to free bus travel, much higher fuel prices to widespread adoption of low traffic neighbourhoods, just to name a few - then it might be worthwhile.

Related terms

• congestion charge

References

• “road pricing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.