témavezető: Mészáros Ferenc
helyszín (magyar oldal): Department of Transport Technology and Economics helyszín rövidítés: KUKG
A kutatási téma leírása:
a./ Antecedents: Road user charging is commonly applied pricing instrument in urban areas to tackle negative externalities of road transportation. The current pricing principles are not dealing with new concepts of future mobility: smart cities, smart transportation, autonomous and connected vehicles, electrification of road transportation, mobility as a service. By the way, technology and technical developments may contradict political and/or social will or habit, therefore the existing pricing approaches need to be subject of re-thinking in the future.
b./ Aim of research: The general objective is exploring and evaluating the current road user charging methods and other pricing instruments in urban transportation, setting up new factors in the pricing mechanism for smart urban environment, and critically reviewing the conditions of real implementation in practice.
c./ Tasks to be performed, their main elements, time requirement:
1. Literature review, setting up the state-of-the-art, even in theory and in practice – 1 year.
2. Elaborating theoretical background of road user charging in smart urban environment. – 1,5 year.
3. Verification of the new pricing approach, analysing requirements of implementation – 1,5 year.
előírt nyelvtudás: English medium level ajánlott nyelvtudás (magyar oldal): German medium level felvehető hallgatók száma: 1