Determining optimal toll levels for city logistics

Toll roads are becoming popular for the provision of new road infrastructure in Australian cities. However, avoidance of toll roads by trucks can cause increased social and environmental costs. Higher levels of noise, emissions, fuel consumption and crashes can result from trucks using alternative routes. However, a comprehensive model to quantify the externalities produced by heavy vehicles avoiding toll roads is lacking. This paper describes such a model which can be used by policy makers and researchers to investigate the costs associated with toll avoidance by road freight vehicles. There does not seem to be a clear link between toll levels charged and the benefits being realised by freight vehicles. Current toll levels are largely determined by distance (not travel time) and broad classifications of freight vehicles. There is a need to estimate the costs and benefits of toll levels for carriers and other stakeholders. This paper describes the behavioural response of freight vehicles route choice to toll charges and the subsequent impacts. These impacts are measured using City logistics principles, which consider the total costs that include economic, social and environmental costs.

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• Authors:
  • Yang, Y
  • Perera, L
  • Thompson, R G
  • Liu, Z
• Conference:
  • ARRB Conference, 27th, 2016, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Publication Date: 2016-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: Linking people, places and opportunities: 27th ARRB Conference, 16-18 November 2016, Melbourne, Victoria

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Costs; Drivers; Freight transportation; Heavy vehicles; Logistics; Mathematical models; Route choice; Toll roads
• Uncontrolled Terms: Freight transport logistics; Transport costs
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ATRI Terms: Freight transport; Heavy vehicle; Logistics; Modelling; Route choice; Transport costs
• ITRD Terms: 1112: Freight transport; 1236: Lorry
• Subject Areas: Finance; Freight Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01622976
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 24 2017 12:05PM