Congestion Pricing Policies and Safety Implications: a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Congestion pricing policies (CPPs) are a common strategy for addressing urban traffic congestion. Research has explored several impacts of these policies (e.g., air quality, equity, congestion relief). The purpose of this review was to synthesize findings from publications examining CPP impacts on road user safety outcomes. We conducted a systematic search of relevant literature in four large research databases (Transport Research International Documentation, Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus), searching from database inception through January 2021. We identified 18 eligible publications. Safety-related outcomes included overall crashes and injury crashes with stratification by injury severity and road user type (e.g., bicyclist, pedestrian). A majority of the publications examined zone-b

SUBMITTER: Singichetti B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8545360 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature