Road pricing is an important travel demand management strategy and its effects on
transportation system has been widely investigated. Toll elasticity has been derived in the …

Freight carriers' behavior greatly varies given the number of parties involved in the process
from the origin end to the destination end and the heterogeneity of commodities …

The theory of marginal cost pricing maintains that setting the price of travel equal to its
marginal social cost will optimize travel demand. This generally entails the addition of a toll …

Direct user fees based options are gaining further momentum all across the United States
and particularly in the state of TX. The success of such ventures or projects requires a clear …

" Road pricing" is a generic term for various strategies that charge tolls for vehicles to use a
particular roadway facility. This paper presents a summary of the state-of-the-practice in …

This paper examines how different price elasticities of travel demand would impact traffic on
a toll road with a time-of-day variable toll rate. Price elasticities were derived from data …

Metropolitan toll roads are a popular source of non-traditional funded highway investment,
targeting automobile users. Toll rates have been traditionally derived from traffic and …

Abstract High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lane systems are considered one of most effective
countermeasures to mitigate freeway congestion. Existing studies have largely focused on …

As transportation planning agencies look for cost-effective means to alleviate traffic
congestion, one method is rarely investigated–variable tolls. Tolls that vary by time of day …

In an effort to manage traffic congestion, variable pricing began August 3, 1998, on two
heavily traveled toll bridges in Lee County, Florida. Bridge travelers can now receive a 50 …