An examination into Stockholm's seven-month-long trial period with congestion taxes, this collection of articles analyzes the political and administrative processes of the first Swedish congestion experiment and its aftermath. Describing the preoccupations, hopes, and impressions that came along with the trial period and how feelings fluctuated among the inhabitants of Stockholm before, during, and after the trial, this study provide tools for avoiding the pitfalls, with hopes that the successes of the Stockholm Trial will be repeated in other contexts.

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Fabulous Success or Insidious Fiasco - Congestion tax and the Stockholm traffic dilemma
  • Before the Stockholm Trial
  • Understanding congestion tax – some theoretical tolls
  • The Stockholm Trial
  • Conclusion – how could it succeed?
  • Notes
• Expected and Unexpected in the Stockholm Trial - The Views of a Transport Researcher
  • Transport economists had been waiting for a hundred years
  • The Dennis package – road pricing as a source of income
  • The significance of figures
  • Instead of the Dennis-tolls
  • The Stockholm Commission and the long wish list
  • A ‘full-scale trial’
  • Transponders, the charging zone and the 20-kronor toll
  • One or more charging zones?
  • The Lidingö exception
  • Efficient or understandable?
  • Would the trial take place?
  • ‘This is no exercise’
  • The wind turns
  • The standard theory versus the real world
  • The effects stabilised
  • Evaluation showed reductions in traffic density almost everywhere
  • What lessons did we learn?
  • Good or bad?
  • Notes
• What Did the Trial Mean for Stockholmers?
  • Forming opinions
  • Adapted travelling habits?
  • Changing travelling habits
  • Notes
• About the Authors
• Sources