Sentence examples for congestion pricing system from inspiring English sources
As part of the negotiations, federal officials have also pushed for a congestion pricing system that would charge airlines more to fly during peak hours.
The report said a congestion pricing system could save airlines and passengers a total of $256.8 million a year at Kennedy through lower landing fees, fewer delay-related costs and time saved.
Ms. Baldwin said the prospect of passing up the $3 billion that the federal government had offered reminded her of the New York Legislature's rejection of a congestion pricing system in Manhattan.
There's an IBM commercial out touting Stockholm's "smart-toll" congestion pricing system that's solved their gridlock problems.
Hong Kong conducted a pilot test on an electronic congestion pricing system between 1983 and 1985 with positive results.
In the past, congestion pricing systems around the world have required physical detection systems that can be extremely costly to implement.
Several other cities, including London, Stockholm, Singapore, and three cities in Norway, have implemented congestion pricing systems that charge a fee for vehicles to enter a certain zone in the city, ostensibly to curb traffic in those zones.
In essence, congestion pricing is a system where drivers would pay higher prices for using high-traffic streets or entering high-traffic zones, allowing cities to better dictate the flow of drivers and reduce congestion. .
But Mr. Thompson said in the report that if conditions did not improve soon, he would favor congestion pricing over the current system, which bases landing fees on an airplane's weight.
Dr. Prabhakar said congestion pricing and his incentive system need not be mutually exclusive, and he noted that highway congestion was an example of "nonlinear" behavior, in which even a small reduction in vehicles at a given time — 10 percent or less — can have a big effect on traffic flow.
These findings call for planners to coordinate properly all decisions regarding the capacity expansion and congestion pricing to improve transportation systems.
