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Title:

MILEAGE-BASED ROAD USER CHARGE CONCEPT

Accession Number:

00978399

Record Type:

Component

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Abstract:

A new approach is presented for charging vehicles that travel on public roadways. This approach applies intelligent transportation system technology to the problem of assessing road user charges, enabling these charges to be fairer, more stable, and more flexible. The approach is amenable to alternative forms of vehicle propulsion systems. Though very simple in concept, the new approach has required that a number of institutional and technological issues be resolved. Key to this approach is a simple onboard computer that stores a record of actual road use charges. Periodically this record is uploaded and transmitted to a data processing center, referred to as the collection center. The center bills a vehicle owner and reimburses the states, counties, and cities operating the roads on which the vehicle has traveled. The onboard system is simple, secure, and capable of protecting the user's privacy. Importantly, the onboard system enables a variety of user charge conventions. In its simplest form, this approach can be used to assess a vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) user charge. With a VMT user charge, the computer can calculate road mileage actually traversed and compare this mileage with that obtained through an odometer feed. It then applies appropriate user charge rates to the mileage traveled in each jurisdiction.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1864, Transportation Finance, Economics, and Economic Development 2004.

Monograph Accession #:

00978398

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Forkenbrock, D J

Pagination:

p. 1-8

Publication Date:

2004

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1864
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309094577

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (13)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Onboard computers

Subject Areas:

Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I10: Economics and Administration

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Sep 8 2004 12:00AM

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