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Title: Effects on Social Welfare Due to Alternative Road Pricing Schemes
Accession Number: 01091545
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: Road pricing has been recognized as an effective means of managing traffic demand, reducing the environmental impact of road traffic and obtaining revenue. Nevertheless, this type of measure produces great public opposition, mainly due to the equity effects. A model was developed for assessing the change in social welfare when implementing different road pricing systems and in this case, we analyzed a flat toll and distance-based toll. The results show that these charging structures produce different impacts on the demand, revenues, user’s surplus, and social welfare. While the flat toll deters shorts trips, also encourages long distance trips. On the other hand, distance-based scheme takes into account the long distance trips but encourages congestion caused by shorts trips. The model was applied on the expressway network of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona using TransCAD.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01084478
Report/Paper Numbers: 08-1924
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Sauri, SergiRobuste, FrancescSalas, MillerPagination: 13p
Publication Date: 2008
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: DVD
Features: Figures
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; Maps
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; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-1924
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jan 29 2008 4:16PM
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