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This paper gives decision makers a framework for assessing proposed implementations of congestion pricing, a transport policy increasingly under consideration internationally and in Israel. Using overall urban accessibility as a touchstone, this framework helps evaluate the potentials and hazards of a given implementation, including its impacts on land use and social equity. The paper applies this framework to analyze the High Occupancy Toll (HOT) variant of congestion pricing, and to assess and suggest improvements to the proposed HOT implementation at the southern entrance of Tel Aviv. The paper was presented as an invited lecture to the Israeli Society for Transport Research on July 6, 2000.