Spillover Effect Details
- Policy
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Swiss Roads Initiative
- Alternative
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Dynamic Toll Pricing Model
- Dimension
- Infrastructure
- Criteria
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- Project timeline reliability
- Time Frame
- 10
- Score
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- PositiveImpact
- The dynamic toll pricing model has the potential to teach future generations about efficient resource allocation and traffic management, instilling a culture of responsibility around travel habits. It may also fund public transport improvements and green initiatives through the revenues generated, thereby creating long-term assets.
- NegativeImpact
- The reliance on dynamic tolling may disproportionately affect lower-income workers who rely on the A1 motorway without flexible schedules, potentially increasing their travel costs and promoting inequity. If not managed well, it could lead to public backlash or a shift in traffic to less regulated roads, resulting in unanticipated congestion elsewhere.
- Description
- While the dynamic toll pricing model has theoretical benefits based on global examples, its practical implications for socio-economic equity and real-time technological dependency raise concerns. Without infrastructure improvements or adequate communication to the public, there is a risk of failure to achieve intended goals of congestion reduction and journey time optimization. Moreover, this approach does not address the underlying infrastructure issues that contribute to road saturation, nor does it significantly improve the environmental concerns associated with increased road usage.