Road pricing issues and experiences in the US and Canada

April 30, 2003 Robin Lindsey Department of Economics University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta CANADA T6G 2H4 rlindsey@ualberta.ca This essay was prepared for the IMPRINT-EUROPE Fourth Seminar “Implementing Pricing Policies in Transport: Phasing and Packaging,” Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium, 13-14 May, 2003. For financial support the author would like to thank the European Commission (project MC-ICAM: Implementation of Marginal Cost Pricing in Transport – Integrated Conceptual and Applied Model Analysis) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (project “Road pricing in urban areas”).

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