SUV toolkit for cities: options for defining and addressing ‘oversized vehicles’

Oversized vehicles have an oversized impact on road space, road dangers, carbon emissions, air pollution and resource use.

Many cities are implementing parking policies which charge the drivers of larger cars more, in order to discourage the use of these cars in our urban spaces. This report examines the advantages and disadvantages of using different metrics (i.e. weight, height, length, width) to define ‘oversized vehicles’ when designing such a parking charge tariff.