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Originally Posted by SMHarman
Oooh don't let Ken Livingstone near this thread he'll introduce congestion charging on the NTL network.
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Actually the London Traffic model is a good one as one of the key things they did was to promote the notion of off-peak travel by giving some incentive to avoid peak times.
Applying the current AUP to that model would be saying you can only travel X miles each day but it doesnt matter when you do that. Result would be the majority would pick the rush hour as that is when they want to be there.
Yes some would voluntarily shift their travel times but far more would do if there was some positive benefit for them.
As it stands someone making two off peak journeys would be seen as more of a problem than another making a peak time journey even though they are not adding to congestion at all but actually easing it by changing when they travel. Thus they would still fall foul of the cap but someone else choosing to add to congestion by making a journy at peak time would not.