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Title: CURBING GRIDLOCK: PEAK-PERIOD FEES TO RELIEVE TRAFFIC CONGESTION. VOLUME 1: COMMITTEE REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Accession Number: 00648238
Record Type: Monograph
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: The Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration requested that the Transportation Research Board and the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Research Council conduct a study of congestion pricing for congestion management. To conduct this study, the National Research Council established the Committee for Study on Urban Transportation Congestion Pricing. The committee's deliberations were supplemented by liaison representatives from several groups concerned about the benefits and costs of congestion pricing. After a review of the literature, and drawing from its expertise, the committee commissioned papers on a variety of topics. This volume, Volume 1 of the committee's report, contains the committee's overview of the material contained in the commissioned papers, its conclusions, and its recommendations regarding the potential of congestion pricing, the need for evaluation of early demonstrations, and other research needs. Following an Executive Summary and Introduction (Chapter 1), Chapter 2 provides a brief overview of the theory and definition of congestion pricing, experience abroad, and current proposals for the United States. Chapter 3 summarizes the best available estimates of how congestion pricing might affect travel, different groups of motorists, air quality, energy, and urban form. Chapter 4 provides an overview of the administrative and political barriers to congestion pricing and how they might be overcome. The design of congestion pricing pilot projects and importance of evaluating any proposals that might be implemented are discussed in Chapter 5. The committee's conclusions are contained in Chapter 6. The appendixes contain more detailed material about some of the same issues covered in the report. This material is provided for readers interested in delving more deeply into available measures of traffic congestion (Appendix A) and the theory of congestion pricing and studies of its possible effects in the United States (Appendix B).
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Pagination: 153 p.
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 0309055059
Features: Appendices
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; Figures; References; Tables
TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Public Transportation; Research; Society; I10: Economics and Administration
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jun 23 1994 12:00AM
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