State and federal research has examined toll roads and attempted to identify methods to make toll roads a more attractive option for drivers. Researchers examined various views of toll road transactions and concluded: (1) Truckers and trucking companies view toll roads significantly differently than the average passenger car driver. Travel time savings and avoiding congestion are generally less important than the actual cost of the tolls and their inability to pass those costs to their customers. (2) Drivers require more information on toll roads: where they are located, how/where to access them, how to pay for the toll transaction, how much time will they save by taking a toll road versus a free alternative, who operates a given toll road, etc. (3) Raising toll rates actually increases revenue while lowing toll rates will increase traffic volumes at the expense of toll revenues.


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    Title :

    Executive Report: Toll Roads, Toll Rates, and Driver Behavior


    Contributors:
    C. Beaty (author) / M. Burris (author) / T. Geiselbrecht (author)

    Publication date :

    2013


    Size :

    14 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Why toll roads?

    Owen, W. / Dearing, C. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1952


    Public-owned toll roads

    Barlow, L.P. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1929


    Toll roads in U.S.A

    Starks, H.J.H. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1957


    Economics of toll roads

    Doody, F.S. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1962


    Case against toll roads

    MacDonald, T.H. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1947