Abstract
This article presents the economic rationale for road pricing and provides some scale on the magnitude of peak period tolls that might be justified. It discusses the impacts of such tolls on congestion, air quality and economic development and suggests a long term strategy towards areawide implementation of peak period pricing. It discusses current trends which are increasing the likelihood for implementation of congestion pricing and toll roads in the future. In particular, it discusses some aspects of the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) which will eliminate some of the current restraints on congestion pricing and toll highways.
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Abbreviations
- ETC:
-
Electronic toll collection
- FHWA:
-
Federal Highway Administration
- HOV:
-
High occupancy vehicle
- ISTEA:
-
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
- LOS:
-
Level of service
- TCM:
-
Transportation control measure
- V/C:
-
Volume-to-capacity ratio
- VMT:
-
Vehicle mile(s) of travel
- vphpl:
-
Vehicles per hour per lane
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Decorla-Souza, P., Kane, A.R. Peak period tolls: Precepts and prospects. Transportation 19, 293–311 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01098636
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