Why We Don't Use Congestion Pricing

Manville's four explanations about why congestion pricing has not been implemented in the US include:

• No One Cares
• Equity Considerations Prevent Congestion Pricing's Implementation
• Congestion Pricing Suffers from a Mismatch Between Economic and Political Efficiency
• Congestion Pricing Lacks a Powerful Advocate

"For most of its intellectual history, congestion pricing has been the domain of economists and engineers. But now it seems, at long last, to be on the cusp of widespread implementation; the last obstacle is the political one. This gives planners, who know something about the messy politics of policy development, an opportunity to influence the way it is implemented, and to offer explanations if and when its implementation goes awry."

Thanks to Randall Crane