A new road charge mooted for electric vehicle drivers is based on a fundamental misconception.
Articles on road user charges
Displaying all articles
Bigger cars mean bigger costs for everyone else. It’s only fair those costs are reflected in how car rego is priced.
Support for road-user charging strengthens when people are assured that revenue goes into reducing traffic congestion, maintaining transport infrastructure, improving public transport.
Our fuel tax is only a rough approximation of the cost of using roads and it will get worse.
The benefits of road-user charging are now well established. And including electric vehicles doesn’t have to be a deterrent to their uptake, as New Zealand and other nations have shown.
Sure, the owners of electric cars don’t pay properly to use the roads, but it’s even worse for the owners of conventionally-powered vehicles.
Top contributors
-
Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
-
PhD Candidate, Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure and Digital Construction, Swinburne University of Technology
-
Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
-
Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology
-
Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor in Supply Chain and Freight Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology