Evaluation Study of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's Time of Day Pricing Initiative

On January 25, 2001 the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) approved a new pricing structure with tolls that varied according to time of day and payment technology. It went into effect on March 25, 2001. The PANYNJ saw the plan as a means for reducing congestion, increasing the use of transit and E-ZPASS, and facilitating commercial traffic control management. The main objective of this project is to monitor the impacts of the time of day pricing initiative, both at the system wide level and at the user level. The project had three main focus areas: Disaggregate Behavior Impacts, Aggregate Impacts on Traffic and Transit Use, and Public Reaction to the time of day pricing initiative. In the first area, focus group studies and surveys were conducted with both passenger car users and truck dispatchers to gain insights on the behavioral changes produced by the time of day pricing initiative. In the second area, a comprehensive data set with traffic counts at the various PANYNJ toll facilities, classified by type of vehicle and hour of the day, were used to quantify the impact of time of day pricing on overall traffic patterns, E-ZPASS usage and time of day traffic changes. The third group focused on the process followed, reactions and public opinions to, the implementation of the time of day pricing initiative. The results indicate that 7.4% of passenger trips and 20.2% of truck trips (including those that increased shipping charges or switched to E-ZPASS) changed behavior because of time of day pricing. The time of day pricing resulted in an increase on the percent share of peak shoulder traffic for both trucks and cars during weekdays, and short term pre-peak elasticities are higher than post-peak elasticities during both AM and PM periods on weekdays for almost all of crossings.

• Record URL:
  http://www.nj.gov/transportation/business/research/reports/FHWA-NJ-2005-005.pdf
• Summary URL:
  http://www.nj.gov/transportation/business/research/reports/FHWA-NJ-2005-005-TB.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38604
• Corporate Authors:

  New Jersey Department of Transportation

  1035 Parkway Avenue
  Trenton, NJ  United States  08625

  University Transportation Research Center

  City College of New York
  Marshak Hall, Suite 910, 160 Convent Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10031

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Holguin-Veras, Jose
  • Ozbay, Kaan
  • de Cerreno, Allison L C
• Publication Date: 2005-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 492p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Commercial vehicles; Dispatchers; Drivers; Elasticity (Economics); Evening; Focus groups; Highway traffic control; Morning; Payment; Peak hour traffic; Periods of the day; Pricing; Private passenger vehicles; Public opinion; Public transit; Ridership; Toll collection; Tolls; Traffic congestion; Traffic counts; Travel behavior; Trucking; Utilization; Weekdays
• Identifier Terms: E-ZPass; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic patterns
• Geographic Terms: New Jersey; New York (New York)
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01001424
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/NJ-2005-005
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 30 2005 10:56AM