A Summary of the Current State of the Practice in Modeling Road Pricing

"Road pricing" is a generic term for various strategies that charge tolls for vehicles to use a particular roadway facility. This paper presents a summary of the state-of-the-practice in modeling the impacts of road pricing on travel demand. It discusses how tolls are typically represented in current travel demand models and how toll revenues are estimated in investment studies. It also identifies the limitations of current modeling practice with respect to road pricing and recommends some directions for research and model improvements.

• Record URL:
  http://media.tmiponline.org/clearinghouse/DOT-OST-P-001-06/ch4.htm
• Corporate Authors:

  Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142

  Department of Transportation

  Office of the Secretary of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Spear, Bruce D
• Conference:
  • Expert Forum on Road Pricing and Travel Demand Modeling
  • Location: Alexandria Virginia, United States
  • Date: 2005-11-14 to 2005-11-15
• Publication Date: 2006-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 13-22
• Monograph Title: Expert Forum on Road Pricing and Travel Demand Modeling Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Estimating; Impacts; Mathematical models; Revenues; Road pricing; State of the practice; Tolls; Travel demand
• Uncontrolled Terms: Future research
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01027368
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 10 2006 8:14AM