CONGESTION PRICING A PRIMER ON EFFICIENT ROADWAY MANAGEMENT ; CONGESTION PRICING A PRIMER ON EFFICIENT ROADWAY MANAGEMENT ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; Chapter 1 CONGESTION PRICING, A PRIMER: OVERVIEW ; THE PRIMER SERIES AND THE PURPOSE OF THIS VOLUME ; THE CONGESTION PROBLEM ; Costs of Traffic Congestion ; Alarming Trends ; Causes of Congestion ; WHAT IS CONGESTION PRICING? ; Technology for Congestion Pricing ; Variably Priced Lanes; Variable Tolls on Roadways ; Zone-Based or Cordon Pricing ; Area-Wide or System-Wide Pricing ; Use of Revenues from Pricing ; BENEFITS OF CONGESTION PRICING.
Benefits to Transit Riders and Carpoolers Benefits to Drivers ; Benefits to Businesses ; EXAMPLES IN THE UNITED STATES ; Hot Lanes on I-15 in San Diego, California ; SR 91 Express Lanes in Orange County, California ; Bridge Pricing in Lee County, Florida ; Oregon's Mileage-Based Pricing Test ; EXAMPLES FROM ABROAD ; Central London ; Stockholm City Center ; Singapore ; Nationwide Truck Pricing in Germany; FEDERAL POLICY AND PROGRAMS ON PRICING ; Federal Legislation ; U.S. Dot's Congestion Relief Initiative ; FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ; How Does Electronic Tolling Work?
How Does Dynamic Pricing Work? How Do Out-of-Town Motorists Who Don't Have a Transponder Pay?; Wouldn't Electronic Tolling Invade a Motorist's Privacy? ; How Much Is the Charge? ; Isn't Pricing Inequitable toward Low-Income Motorists? ; Isn't Congestion Pricing "Double Taxation"? ; Won't Adjacent Free Roads Get More Congested Due to Diverted Traffic? ; Do People Have Flexibility to Change the Time When they Travel? ; Will the Public Accept Congestion Pricing? ; Will Congestion Pricing Lead to Privatization of Highways?
Won't Congestion Pricing Involve High Costs for Implementation and Operation? What Effect will Congestion Pricing Have on the Quality of the Environment? ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 2 NON-TOLL PRICING: A PRIMER ; THE PURPOSE OF THIS VOLUME ; INTRODUCTION TO NON-TOLL PRICING ; OVERVIEW OF MILEAGE-BASED PRICING STRATEGIES ; Paydays Car Insurance ; Car Sharing ; OVERVIEW OF PARKING AND ACCESS PRICING STRATEGIES ; Parking Cash-Out ; Variably Priced Metered Parking ; Pricing of Off-Street Parking ; Variable Port Access Charges for Trucks ; MAKING NON-TOLL PRICING HAPPEN.
Individual and Corporate Actions Government Incentives ; REFERENCES ; Chapter 3 TECHNOLOGIES THAT ENABLE CONGESTION PRICING: A PRIMER ; THE PURPOSE OF THIS VOLUME ; CONGESTION-PRICING OPTIONS ; FUNCTIONAL PROCESSES FOR TOLLING AND CONGESTION CHARGING ; PRIMARY TOLLING AND PRICING-SYSTEM COMPONENTS ; Paper-Based Systems ; Manual-Toll Facilities ; Image-Based Tolling/Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) Technology ; DSRC Free-Flow Toll Using Transponders and Gantries ; VPS Technologies ; Cellular Telephone and Pico-Cell Systems ; Combination Systems ; SUB-SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES.
