Effects on Social Welfare Due to Alternative Road Pricing Schemes
Road pricing has been recognized as an effective means of managing traffic demand, reducing the environmental impact of road traffic and obtaining revenue. Nevertheless, this type of measure produces great public opposition, mainly due to the equity effects. A model was developed for assessing the change in social welfare when implementing different road pricing systems and in this case, we analyzed a flat toll and distance-based toll. The results show that these charging structures produce different impacts on the demand, revenues, user’s surplus, and social welfare. While the flat toll deters shorts trips, also encourages long distance trips. On the other hand, distance-based scheme takes into account the long distance trips but encourages congestion caused by shorts trips. The model was applied on the expressway network of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona using TransCAD.
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Authors:
- Sauri, Sergi
- Robuste, Francesc
- Salas, Miller
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
- Date: 2008
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: DVD
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 13p
- Monograph Title: TRB 87th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: City planning; Economic and social factors; Metropolitan areas; Road pricing; Social benefits; Toll roads; Tolls; Traffic control; Transportation policy; Trip length
- Geographic Terms: Barcelona (Spain)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Society; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01091545
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 08-1924
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Apr 23 2008 9:25AM