Feasibility Analysis of Congestion Pricing in Beijing

Traffic congestion is a natural outcome when the cities develope to a certain level.With the economic fast developing in our country,more and more,big sized and medium sized cities are faced with serious traffic congestion,which is a fatal bottleneck of urban sustained development.Congestion pricing,an effective measure of traffic demand management attracts large scale attentions as a result of more and more urban traffic congestion.Congestion pricing can implement traffic demand management by pricing mechanism,and control individual motor traffic demand in order to make urban traffic structure incline to public traffic and improve comprehensive efficiency of urban traffic.Based on the actuality of Beijing,considering the successful experience of London,this paper discusses the feasibility to actualize the congestion pricing in Beijing.