Finance, Pricing, Economics, and Equity Issues

This issue contains 21 papers concerned with transportation finance, pricing, economics, and equity issues. Specific topics discussed include the following: a marginal-cost vehicle mileage fee; equity of fees for vehicle miles traveled; relationship between vehicle miles traveled and economic activity; role of context in equity effects of congestion pricing; impact fees effects on urban form and congestion; willingness to pay for high-occupancy toll lanes; traveler pay for managed-lane travel; managed arterials; impact of peak and off-peak tolls on corridor traffic; risk allocation in toll highway concessions; valuing public-sector revenue risk exposure in transportation public-private partnerships; risk measurement for pay-as-you-drive automobile insurance; benefit-cost analysis of information technology tools for program management; generating revenue to fund public-private partnerships for urban freeway reconstruction; local initiative, decentralized control, and independent financing of the Chicago Skyway; nonpublic funding options for interstate safety rest areas; price adjustments in unit-cost construction contracts; models to assess impact of infrastructure investment; relationship of transportation access and connectivity to local economic outcomes; road investments effects on economic output and induced travel demand; and impact of regulation and network topology on effectiveness of roadway privatization.

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• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 190p
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2297
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access; Arterial highways; Automobile insurance; Benefit cost analysis; Concessions; Congestion pricing; Connectivity; Contracts; Economic impacts; Economic models; Economics; Equity; Financing; Freeways; High occupancy toll lanes; Highway corridors; Impact fees; Impact studies; Information technology; Infrastructure; Investments; Local area networks; Managed lanes; Marginal costs; Mileage-based user fees; Privatization; Program management; Public private partnerships; Reconstruction; Risk analysis; Roadside rest areas; Toll roads; Tolls; Traffic congestion; Travel demand; Unit costs; Vehicle miles of travel
• Identifier Terms: Chicago Skyway
• Uncontrolled Terms: Arterial management; Induced travel; Pay as you drive; Price adjustment; Revenue generation; Risk allocation; Traffic impact analysis; Urban form; Willingness to pay
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Policy; I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01470980
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309262989
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 30 2013 9:42AM