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Title:

Enhancing Livability and Sustainability by Linking Congestion Pricing with Transit

Accession Number:

01154711

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Livability and sustainability have become primary goals for the U.S. transportation system. U.S. policy makers and state and local transportation leaders should take a serious look at the experience and case for linking congestion pricing with transit as a means to achieving livability and sustainability goals. Singapore, London and Stockholm have implemented congestion pricing with significant investments in transit with success in reducing congestion as well as shifting drivers to transit. High-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes in the U.S. offer opportunities for faster and more reliable transit service and could be expanded to HOT networks for an entire urban area. Minnesota’s I-394 and I-35W MnPASS projects demonstrate how significant transit improvements can be linked with congestion pricing and achieve congestion reduction and increased transit ridership with integrated planning and development. Policy opportunities include continuing the Value Pricing Pilot Program to encourage congestion pricing innovations to achieve livability and sustainability goals; giving higher priority to projects involving congestion pricing in federal transit funding; giving priority where both congestion pricing and transit improvements are involved in highway projects; encouraging performance-based high impact projects to reduce urban congestion and improve livability and sustainability, using congestion pricing with flexible funding for highway and transit improvements

Monograph Accession #:

01147878

Report/Paper Numbers:

10-2492

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Munnich Jr, Lee W

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2010

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2010-1-10 to 2010-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures; Photos; References (13)

Identifier Terms:

MnPASS

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-2492

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 25 2010 11:11AM