Title:
Finance, Pricing, Economics, and Equity Issues
Abstract:
This issue contains 21 papers concerned with transportation finance, pricing, economics, and equity issues. Specific topics discussed include the following: a marginal-cost vehicle mileage fee; equity of fees for vehicle miles traveled; relationship between vehicle miles traveled and economic activity; role of context in equity effects of congestion pricing; impact fees effects on urban form and congestion; willingness to pay for high-occupancy toll lanes; traveler pay for managed-lane travel; managed arterials; impact of peak and off-peak tolls on corridor traffic; risk allocation in toll highway concessions; valuing public-sector revenue risk exposure in transportation public-private partnerships; risk measurement for pay-as-you-drive automobile insurance; benefit-cost analysis of information technology tools for program management; generating revenue to fund public-private partnerships for urban freeway reconstruction; local initiative, decentralized control, and independent financing of the Chicago Skyway; nonpublic funding options for interstate safety rest areas; price adjustments in unit-cost construction contracts; models to assess impact of infrastructure investment; relationship of transportation access and connectivity to local economic outcomes; road investments effects on economic output and induced travel demand; and impact of regulation and network topology on effectiveness of roadway privatization.
