Green Vehicles’ Responses to an Expiring Congestion Toll Exemption: Findings from a Natural Experiment in Stockholm, Sweden

2023/11/20 by Fatemeh Naqavi, Emma Engström, Joel P. Franklin · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Energy · Social Sciences · #Economic and Environmental Valuation #Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies #Transportation Planning and Optimization

paper · pdf · doi:10.32866/001c.88878

openalex publication_date 2023/11/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Stockholm established time-varying congestion pricing in 2007, and adopted a toll exemption as a temporary incentive for green vehicles (GVs) that ended in 2012. We examine the behavioral effects of phasing out the exemption by studying the change in cordon crossing events for GV morning commuters between May 2012 and May 2013, with a random sample of conventional vehicles (CVs) as control. The results suggest i) a significant drop in the total number of crossings; ii) a slight shift towards later journeys in the morning; and iii) a reduction in the ratio of peak-toll period crossings to other ones.

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