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Congestion pricing is an effective way to manage travel demand on transportation facilities. The most common form (and fastest growing) form of congestion pricing in the US are variably priced high occupancy/toll (HOT) facilities which run parallel to non-priced general purpose (GP) lanes. This paper reviews best practices among existing HOT lane facilities in the US, synthesizing a series of academic and agency expert interviews which address topics including tolling basis, toll update frequency, toll elasticity of demand, maximum and minimum pricing caps, occupancy restrictions, toll signage, facility access, and incident management. Furthermore, this paper proposes a tolling framework (based on expert insights discussed in best practices) for HOT facilities which do not have parallel GP lanes. This framework considers both the user preference for the predictability of a time-of-day pricing scheme as well as the flexibility of a dynamic pricing scheme to accommodate real-time fluctuations in traffic demand.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE25 Standing Committee on Congestion Pricing. Alternate title: Best Practices for Existing High-Occupancy-Toll Lanes and Conceptual Framework for Variably Priced Fully Tolled Facilities.

01618707

17-03763

English

14p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Best practices; Congestion pricing; High occupancy toll lanes; Toll facilities; Tolls

United States

Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-03763

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 11:26AM