Towards Socially and Economically Sustainable Developments: Impacts of Toll Pricing on Residential Developments

The goal of this research is to investigate the effects of road pricing on residential land use choices and to help select pricing policies that foster socially and economically sustainable residential development in urbanized residential areas. Under this goal, a residential land use choice model in logit form with shared aggregated data was developed. The model was designed to assess the impacts of various toll pricing policies and the resulting accessibility on a residential land use choice pattern. The Great Buffalo-Niagara metropolitan area was selected for a case study. The multinomial logit model was built at the census tract level, with four residential land use types—single-family houses, multiple-family houses, apartments and others—as main choice alternatives. With the estimated model, the following hypothetical toll pricing scenarios were tested: (1) uniform increase of tolls for the entire region, (2) distance-based tolls for the entire region, and (3) uniform tolls for entering the downtown area only. The authors found that toll pricing strategies affect accessibility of zones, shaping a trend and pattern of the residential land use. More specifically, increased toll charges would urge people to choose multi-family housing and apartments, encouraging a sustainable high density residential land use pattern.

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• Summary URL:
  http://www.utrc2.org/publications/final-toll-pricing?utm_source=Final+Reports&utm_campaign=02-18-14+PR-Final+Reports&utm_medium=email
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/27010
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program. Cover title: Towards Socially and Economically Sustainable Urban Developments: Impacts of Toll Pricing on Residential Developments.
• Corporate Authors:

  State University of New York, Buffalo

  Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
  Buffalo, NY  United States  14260

  University Transportation Research Center

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

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Hu, Jinge
  • Kwon, Changhyun
  • Park, JiYoung
  • Wang, Qian
• Publication Date: 2013-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 34p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Choice models; Housing; Land use; Multinomial logits; Residential location; Road pricing; Sustainable development; Tolls; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Buffalo Metropolitan Area
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516289
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 49111-23-23
• Files: UTC, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 28 2014 1:32PM