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Britain
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| London |
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| Area : |
about
248000km2 |
| Population : |
about
58,840,000 people(2,000) |
| Electric
consumption : |
3299kWh/ person(1999)
[Japan:About8180kWh(1999)] |
| Electric
consumption/ 1 person : 5545kWh(1999) |
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[Japan:About6457kWh/people
(1999)] |
| Main
industry : |
aircraft,electric
apparatus,electronics,
chemistry,metal,oil,gas,finance |
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* We extract it than Ministry of Foreign Affairs "Each country
/ area situation document(2,003 September)" about "area" "population"
"main industry". And we extract it from "World energy circumstances(Association
of electricity company society)" about Electric consumption,
Power consumption per one.
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| Introduce congestion tax into traffic of a central area |
| Traffic jam of a big city causes air pollution. And this is a world's problem.This time, I introduce it about introduction of the traffic congestion tax which world people have interest toward in London,British that is one of a severe city of a traffic jam most in the world. |
| The large-scale traffic congestion taxation system |
Traffic jam of the London city is the worst in Europe so that it is said "Speed of a car running in the London city is the same as a carriage before 100 years".
The economic loss is more than 2,000,000 pounds (about 380,000,000 yen) between one week.
Therefore the town introduced traffic congestion tax in February, this year to reduce traffic volume of a center.
This system is...Time from weekday 7:00 a.m. to evening 6:30, the car which is in A range of about 21km2 centers of London(the area that merged Chuuo-ku with Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo) faces each other and must pay a tax of 5 pounds (about 940 yen). [But it is motorcycle and bus and taxi, substitute fuel car and battery car of eco-friendly natural gas cars are exempted from a tax.]
| Big cities in the world pay attention to it |
As for the traffic volume in a taxation ward, 16% seem to have decreased in comparison with the same time period of last year when they investigated monitoring from congestion tax introduction three months later.
As for the car in particular, 38% seem to have decreased.
50-70% of the inside that decreased shift to public means of transportation such as bus or a subway, and it is supposed that bicycle / motor scooter taxi shifted to other movement means as for 20-30%.
The quantity of inflow of a car decreased than expectation. And the yield of taxes decreased than expectation, too.
Because it was to get means of transportation ready for this income, it is a problem how you get a future source of revenue.
In fact, there is a person to strongly object to because a tax is expensive.
However, the Lord Mayer of London clarifies a policy of his "If this system did not work smoothly, I will revise it." definitely.
A review of general control such as an environmental aspect, a local news page, an economic aspect is to be announced in April, next year.
Big cities in the world pay attention to it in the result.
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A lot of mobile cameras and fixed cameras are established in several hundred places of taxable area, numbers of cars are watched.
People can pay a tax from Internet and a post office and a service station. And they must pay the tax by the day for 90th.
If they do not pay the tax, they must pay in the most expensive case of 120 pounds.
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Reference materials:
British government sightseeing agency web site "UK NOW" others
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