NETWORK WIDE ROAD PRICING USING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM INFORMATION

The Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources (Tasmania) has trialed the use of the global positioning system (GPS) as an aid to better management of road networks. This paper considers how information from the system could be used to implement network wide road user charging. It scopes out some of the economic efficiency issues that need to be considered if this type of reform proposition were to be realistically evaluated. It finds that the trade-off between the transaction costs and pricing complexity (differentiation) is a crucial consideration associated with analysis of the proposition. The uncertainty regarding the value of cross-price elasticity is a major impediment to solving this optimisation problem. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD E200461.

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  WESTERN AUSTRALIA. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT

  441 MURRAY STREET
  PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA  Australia  6000
• Authors:
  • SALTER, P
• Conference:
  • AUSTRALASIAN TRANSPORT RESEARCH FORUM (ATRF), 23RD, 1999, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, VOL 23, PART 1
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 237-52

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Costs; Economic efficiency; Global Positioning System; Networks; Road pricing; Roads; Travelers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 237: Economic efficiency; 9126: Global positioning system; 240: Road pricing; 1755: Road user
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Finance; Highways; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00796351
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-7307-2490-5
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 2 2000 12:00AM