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为什么给交通定价（Why traffic pricing） In 2002, the city of London was full of traffic jams. The most typical day, as many as 250 thousand cars in the area of central London line area of 8 square kilometers, preparation and use of public transportation 1 million commuter traffic to start a war. In addition to long and wide boulevards, London is full with the high narrow winding road, the vehicle average speed of 10 miles below the road, if hit by bad weather, which is 3 miles per hour. Even walking is faster than driving, and it doesnt sweat. The traffic is so bad that has been the mayor of London Ken ? lingston from a self confessed is a sociologist who has turned into a positive economic means to promote the implementation of the people. In February 2003 London took the lead in charging motorists to drive into downtown areas. You have to pay 5 pounds if you want to get into central London at 7 in the morning and 6:30 in the afternoon. If you dont pay, the 230 cameras installed in the city will take your license number at any one, and youll be fined 80. In theory, the plan could raise 180 million pounds a year for London, which could be used to invest in public transport, and traffic congestion would fall by 20%. Traffic congestion pricing There is only one principle to support the London project: when a man drives into the city and causes traffic trouble, he pays for the losses because he has caused losses to other people. Since 20s of the last century, congestion pricing has emerged as an idea. The most important proponent of the idea is Nobel prize winner William #8226. In the case of Vick, road space, like other scarce resources, needs to be made in several ways to make decisions that are clearly beneficial to them, if they are to be distributed rationally. Because the main roads in the city are free, everyone can choose to drive on the main road during rush hour. For society as a whole, traffic is even smoother if someone drives sooner or later than the rush hour. So s