The growth of traffic in Denmark in recent years has created increasing interest in using financial incentives to control the extent and distribution of traffic. In 1997, the Danish Transport Council published a report on road user charging concluding that the optimal charging scheme would be a road pricing system by which drivers pay a tax per kilometre, depending on where and when they drive. In order to gain more knowledge about the advantages and disadvantages of such a system, the FORTRIN Programme was launched in June 1998 with a three years time horizon. One of the core objectives of the FORTRIN Programme was to analyse the impacts of a distance-dependent pricing system. This paper describes the concept of the scheme and summarises the main findings and conclusions of the programme.
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