The question is not my expertise but relevant to our society. To bring down the vehicle crowding on the roads, is it good to keep a taxing system which taxes the person according to the surface area of the vehicle he uses everyday? if so, it will bring down the vehicle crowding on the road which will pave way for emergencies like ambulance etc.
There are many examples of the use of road taxes to address congestion problems in the UK, US, Singapore, Brazil and many other countries. This is a well-studied and understood problem in the fields of urban and transportation economics. A couple of recent articles for London’s congestion tax below:
IFS policy report: https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14407
Jonathan Leape, 2006. “The London Congestion Charge” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(4), 157-176. https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.20.4.157
In major industrialized countries, you find that they use public transport, such as the metro and others, more than they use personal cars, and this is primarily due to the cost of private transportation and secondly to traffic congestion, as well as there are fees for using some bridging roads as well .This may be due to the health and environmental awareness of the community, as well as the importance of time and cost reduction. We hope, at least, that there will be a system to control the import of cars with what the country can absorb. This is what was followed in my country, Iraq before 2003.
Thanks Jesse A Matheson and Niam A.Fawaz for the beautiful reply. Yes most of the developed countries have policy on environmental protection and they encourage everyone to use public transport which is very good. But developing countries need more time to evolve in those aspects.In general, All over the globe, if people chose cycle to commute for their routine work, it will improve the total mass health index as well as reduce the global warming.
Hope some day people will realize make changes accordingly.
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