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DTBB Document Library
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DTBB Document Library
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Tolls
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Highway Finance—Entering the Second Century
Summarizes need for better methods of financing new or existing highways, including tolls.
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E-ZPASS Evaluation Report
Diagnoses use and acceptance of E-ZPASS electronic toll collection system.
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Comparing The Efficiency of Alternative Policies for Reducing Congestion
Compares the efficiency of various toll methods at reducing congestion. Discusses latent traffic demand problem.
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Curbing Gridlock: Peak-Period Fees to Relieve Traffic Congestion -- Special
Reveals how tolls charged during rush hours change driver behavior to take pressure off congested roadways. Also discusses the bain of traffic engineers: latent traffic.
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Standardizing Electronic Toll Collection
The ability to perform nonstop automatic toll collection, without the addition of costly toll booths, makes congestion pricing considerably easier, less costly, and more user-friendly to implement.
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How to "Build Our Way Out of Congestion"
The combination of innovative highway redesign, separation of types of traffic, toll financing, variable pricing, and electronic toll collection will allow us to offer drivers real alternatives to gridlocked freeways. Using these methods in combination, we CAN build our way out of congestion.
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The Market for Private Toll Projects in the United States
Engineering, construction, and development firms identified as key success factors for private tollway projects (1) local political support, (2) minimal environmental problems, and (3) state enabling legislation.
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