[namibj]

Or you take year's congestion charge revenue and split it equally across the residents.

The goal should be shifting traffic away from inefficient uses of the infrastructure's capacity.

That should provide the economics for actual ride sharing (I don't mean single-passenger taxi rides, but car pooling and busses) which would allow dynamic networks where passengers need to switch between vehicles on low-throughout links. Think a hybrid between taxi service and bus lines.

Such a network would be able to use incremental addition of fixed line public transit without today's issue of no car-grade last-mile solution for commuter rail services.

Also, public transit gets better when more people use it, due to e.g. busses needing to run more often for capacity and thus automatically/accidentally providing nice latency.

[imtringued]

A dividend is the right idea.