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ELSEVIER Interuban Road Charging For Trucs In Europe (Hb 2005) by Manuel
Charging for the use of transport infrastructure has very different traditions in the various modes, reflecting the different nature of their infrastructure (nodal vs. linear), but also different historical traditions of open access, system integration, etc._x000D_
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Since the early 90's various European Commission initiatives took on this issue, looking mainly at the road sector, where many countries had no (direct) access charges. Heavy goods vehicles were systematically identified as the primary targets for a renewed approach to this problem._x000D_
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What seemed an easy catch has proved to be much harder, with the various countries adopting almost exclusively national approaches, and the European institutions unable to drive the process._x000D_
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This book looks at the challenges posed by this objective, recognising that there are multiple objectives for applica...