Congestion Pricing: An Alternative to Highway Expansion in the Region?
By Richard Eriksson on May 8, 2007 - 11:47am
May 16, 2007, 7-8:30 pm
From the SFU City program event listing (warning, may resize your browser):
Other cities in Europe, Asia and North America are increasingly turning to various forms of road and congestion pricing to reduce crippling levels of traffic congestion. Find out how metropolitan areas around the world are using road pricing as an alternative to the traditional approach of simply expanding road networks to meet demand. Audience Q & A to follow.
Presentation by Lee Munnich, one of North America’s leading congestion pricing experts
Mr. Munnich is a senior fellow and director of the State and Local Policy Program at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He has been a leader in the area of congestion pricing since the 1990s, specializing in political and institutional issues. Munnich chairs the Transportation Research Board's Subcommittee on Pricing Outreach. He played a primary role in developing Minnesota's I-394 MnPASS Express Lanes, a high-occupancy toll (HOT) lane project, in 2005.
This event is co-sponsored by Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST) and by the SFU City Program
