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The traffic congestion has been reach to a critical level in the metropolitan cities, however; the local governments have developed various solution methods against this problem. The most effective solution among these methods is traffic congestion pricing. The local governments of the cities of London, Stockholm and Milan have successfully implemented the congestion pricing method. In this study, the solution of the congestion pricing solution in Erzurum Cumhuriyet Street, which is not applied before, has been examined for this problem. According to both the model created and the survey carried out, in the along the cordon route determined at Cumhuriyet Street, account of theoretical congestion pricing has been made. In the modeling study; car ownership, travel time, fuel consumption and emission costs have been used. As a result, it is foreseen that traffic congestion will decrease in the city center and a significant financial income will be obtained with the application of pricing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]