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The Impact of Adopting Time-of-Day Tolling: Case Study of 183A in Austin, Texas
(2015)
  • Thomas Light, RAND Corporation
  • Sunil Patil, RAND Corporation
  • Gregory D. Erhardt, RAND Corporation
  • Flavia Tsang, RAND Corporation
  • Peter Burge
  • Paul Sorensen
  • Mia Zmud
Abstract
The Impact of Adopting Time-of-Day Tolling: Case Study of 183A in Austin, Texas evaluates the traffic and revenue effects of moving from a fixed toll rate on the 183A Turnpike in Texas to a toll structure that varies by time of day. To conduct the analysis, RAND administered a stated preference survey and developed discrete choice models to understand how motorists are likely to respond to alternative tolling arrangements. The analysis suggests that shifting to time-of-day tolling on 183A is not likely to meet the tolling authority's objectives of reducing congestion downstream in the transportation network, given other constraints facing the toll road operator.
Keywords
  • tolls,
  • traffic,
  • revenue,
  • fixed rate,
  • variable rate,
  • time-of-day,
  • Austin,
  • Texas
Publication Date
2015
Citation Information
Thomas Light, Sunil Patil, Gregory D. Erhardt, Flavia Tsang, et al.. "The Impact of Adopting Time-of-Day Tolling: Case Study of 183A in Austin, Texas" (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gregory-erhardt/1/