Abstract
The industry's potential needs to be released by three interlinked measures - gradually introduce the large changes in vehicle taxation necessary to approximate the principle of users paying the costs they actually impose on society (incremental maintenance, congestion and environmental nuisance), make clear in planning, and to users, the link be-tween these user taxes and investment to relieve conges-tion and related probelems, and allow full commercial free-dom to private enterprises to find the best means, given these taxing arrangements, for responding to market de-mands.