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Title: A Concept of Operations for Peak-Period Pricing on Metropolitan Freeway Systems
Accession Number: 01127160
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: Priced lanes operating in the U.S. have demonstrated that traffic demand on individual segments of freeways can be managed through variable pricing – either through tolls that vary according to a pre-set schedule, or dynamically. However, neither conventional pre-set tolls nor dynamic tolls would provide for optimal performance with a freeway pricing system involving all lanes of an entire network of priced freeways. This paper discusses the issues and presents a concept that would address the issues for freeway network-wide pricing (i.e., all lanes). The concept attempts to provide information to motorists sufficiently in advance so as to influence their travel choices before they leave home, while at the same time ensuring maximum utilization of the freeway system at the lowest possible toll rates, and guaranteeing a specific level of service set by policy. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of this concept, a pilot project is suggested.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01120148
Report/Paper Numbers: 09-0240
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: DeCorla-Souza, Patrick TPagination: 15p
Publication Date: 2009
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: DVD
Features: Figures; Photos; References
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-0240
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jan 30 2009 4:32PM
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