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Title: PAYING EQUITABLY FOR URBAN CONGESTION THROUGH NATIONAL ROAD PRICING SYSTEM
Accession Number: 00732445
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Automated toll collection (ATC) systems have been implemented successfully in the United States to collect tolls on bridges and at tunnels and turnpikes. A conceptual national automated road pricing system (NARPS) is described. NARPS consists of a nationwide application of an integrated and coordinated ATC system. Its primary purpose is to collect variable tolls on congested urban roads to improve traffic distribution and the overall efficiency of the highway system. The components of the proposed system are transponders, detectors, and processors used to automatically identify approaching vehicles at normal speed, calculate applicable tolls, and maintain local data bases of all tolls and vehicles to be processed remotely in a control center. A nationwide application of an integrated ATC system offers numerous significant advantages: cost savings, efficiency, traffic management, and a host of secondary applications that are not feasible with localized ATC systems. The management of the system is simplified by billing only drivers who exceed a threshold toll amount, thereby exempting the majority of drivers in rural and other areas.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1558, Transportation Finance, Economics, and Strategic Management.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Najafi, F TNassar, F EKaczorowski, PPagination: p. 60-66
Publication Date: 1996
Serial: ISBN: 0309059585
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; I10: Economics and Administration
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Feb 21 1997 12:00AM
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