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Research Note: Pricing Out Congestion - Experiences from abroad

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Ignorance is not bliss: Why knowledge matters

Research Note: Pricing Out Congestion - Experiences from abroad

As part of The New Zealand Initiative's transport research series, our second report, Pricing Out Congestion, focuses on the international experiences around congestion pricing, i.e. the use of road charges encouraging motorists to avoid traveling at peak times in busy routes. Read more

Dr Patrick Carvalho

Research Note

28 January, 2020

Congestion charges: we have the tech, we have the proof

Chronic road congestion is a global epidemic, plaguing poor and rich countries alike. In dozens of cities around the world, from Bogota to Rome, from Moscow to Boston, from Toronto to Dhaka, from Sydney and Melbourne to Auckland and Wellington, the average motorist wastes more than a hundred hours every year idling behind the wheels in overcrowded routes. Read more

Dr Patrick Carvalho

Newsroom

28 January, 2020

Submission: Review of the Crown Minerals Act 1991

Read our submission, written by Dr Bryce Wilkinson, to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment on the Review of the Crown Minerals Act 1991. Read more

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27 January, 2020

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