THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONIC TOLLING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MELBOURNE CITY LINK

The Melbourne City Link is a large tollway development around the center of Melbourne. It will link the city ends of three of Melbourne's major freeways, including a tunnel under a major near central city park and the Yarra River. This project is estimated to have a construction cost of $1 billion (US) and is one of the largest and most important inner metropolitan road developments ever undertaken in Australia. The Link is the first major private road development in the State of Victoria. Two private sector groups were selected to submit proposals for the design, construction, financing, and operation of the Link and the selection of the successful bidder is scheduled for mid 1995. The Link will be subject to tolls. Unlike most toll roads to date around the world, the tolls will be collected solely by electronic means--there will be no toll collection by manual or automatic means. The paper will trace the evolution of the project but will concentrate on the evaluation process for the selection of the preferred consortium, and the development of the tolling proposals. The tolling requirement specified by the Government is to permit traffic to proceed along the Link without having to stop or slow down at toll plazas. The technical and policy features of the tolling solution will be examined, along with the Government support required to implement the tolling solution, including detection of violators, in an environment where tolling had not previously been used.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Five volumes of papers and one volume of abstracts comprise the published set of conference materials.
• Corporate Authors:

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  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • Smith, A
  • Neve, J
• Conference:
  • Steps Forward. Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress
  • Location: Yokohama, Japan
  • Date: 1995-11-9 to 1995-11-11
• Publication Date: 1995-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 1483

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competitive bidding; Construction; Contractors; Design; Electronic equipment; Evaluation; Financing; Intelligent transportation systems; Operations; Toll collection; Toll roads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Selection
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Old TRIS Terms: Electronic systems
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00723423
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume 3
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 22 1996 12:00AM