You can find the full article on the World Economic Forum website: How road pricing is tackling congestion and pollution in cities like London and Singapore.

Private vehicle traffic is skyrocketing – bringing with it more traffic jams, longer travel times and worsening air quality. Modifying road pricing can play a pivotal role in solving these challenges as well as transitioning to sustainable urban mobility. Singapore and London may be located in different hemispheres but both cities are global leaders in innovative approaches that reduce the congestion, emissions and pollution caused by road traffic. They’re among a growing number of cities with roads surpassing or nearing pre-pandemic traffic counts. Cities around the world are considering road pricing as part of multi-pronged suite of solutions to improve their transport systems and answer the question: “How can city transport be safer, healthier and more sustainable?”

Changing pricing will change traffic patterns, free up public space, incentivize zero emission mobility and support investment in alternatives like public transport, cycling, scooting and walking. If carefully and thoughtfully redesigned and implemented with community input, revised road pricing that considers direct and indirect costs could lead to a clean, equitable and financially resilient, sustainable future of road mobility.

You can find the full whitepaper on the World Economic Forum website: Sustainable Road Transport and Pricing.

This White Paper, from the Global Future Council on Urban Mobility Transitions, evaluates road pricing mechanisms and calls for an acceleration towards equitable, clean and financially resilient mobility through continued examination of the impact of road transport. It offers a rationale for re-examining current mobility pricing mechanisms and reviews approaches to emission, congestion, parking and curb pricing schemes. Technological solutions and new mobility options provide the opportunity to use pricing mechanisms to reallocate public space and redeploy resources more sustainably. The paper calls for revisions to pricing mechanisms in conjunction with comprehensive mobility plans designed in partnership with communities to address their needs. With investment in shared, zero-emission and active mobility solutions combined with differential mobility fees, credits or scrappage schemes, changes to road transport can address the prevailing challenges.

Wolf Ketter has recently been mentioned in an article about Power TAC in the RESET Special Feature “Artificial Intelligence – Can Computing Power Save Our Planet?”. Read the full article: Power TAC: The AI Platform Showing How a 100% Renewable Energy World Might Actually Work

Authority Magazine has published this interview about Wolf’s career, his stance on sustainability and the current situation with COVID-19: Professor Wolf Ketter: “We will achieve the tipping point that accelerates a sustainable energy future when we finally realise how we are all connected in so many ways”.

Wolf has provided his insight about how “flattening the curve” during the current crisis might impact future business decisions in the Forbes article Seven Ways To Make Business Truly Sustainable Post-COVID.

The current lack of electric vehicle charging infrastructure is an obstacle for the wide adaption of electric vehicles. Wolf explains his take on the subject in the article Cleaning up cars: what will it take for the UK to drop fossil fuels? published in Power Technology.

As the C40 group of mayors meet in Copenhagen this week, you’ll be discussing what key actions will help you deliver on the Paris Agreement’s commitments and how your leadership can result in a prosperous carbon neutral economy and equitable society. As you start these discussions, it’s important to take stock of what policies they, and other mayors around the world, can implement at the local level to drive us towards meeting these goals.

One of these policies is road pricing.

The most amusing Twitter distraction of the summer has to be #FreeDorothy. In short, when a teenaged Ariana Grande fan accidentally started a kitchen fire, presumably in a case of cooking-while-distracted, her mother took away her smart phone with an admonishment to “pay more attention to her surroundings”.

The teen, in a resourcefulness borne out of summertime boredom and a desire to maintain her thriving social media network, began tweeting via a variety of connected household devices. The #FreeDorothy hashtag went viral once it became clear that “Dorothy” was tweeting using her family’s LG Smart Refrigerator.