Economics and Finance

Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS Projects: Volume 2 An Application to Electronic Toll Collection

Gillen, David
Li, Jianling
Dahlgren, Joy
Chang, Elva
1999

The Carquinez Bridge ETC project is a pilot project of a statewide toll bridge improvement project undertaken by Caltrans. Caltrans owns and operates nine toll bridges statewide. Over the last five years, traffic on all area bridges has increased from 129 million vehicle crossings in Fiscal year (FY) 1992-93 to 140 million in FY 1996-97, with an average annual rate of 2 percent as indicated in Figure 1. However, the toll facilities are antiquated. The bridges use a toll collection system known as Toll Registration, Audit and Collection (TRAC) installed in the early 1980s, and tolls have...

Smart Parking Management Field Test: A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District Parking Demonstration

Shaheen, Susan A., PhD
Rodier, Caroline, PhD
2006

Smart parking management technologies may provide a cost-effective tool to address near-term parking constraints at transit stations. Smart parking management systems have been implemented in numerous European, British, and Japanese cities to more efficiently use parking capacity at transit stations by providing real-time information via changeable message signs to motorists about available parking spaces in park-and-ride lots. This working paper describes the interim results of a smart parking field operational test, which operated at a San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District...

Safetrip-21: Connected Traveler

Sengupta, Raja
Misener, Jim
Ahern, Katherine
Chan, Ching-Yao
Gupta, Somak Datta
Jariyasunant, Jerry
Li, Jing-Quan
Long, Christopher
Mai, Eric
Manasseh, Christian
Nowakowski, Christopher
O’Connell, Jessica
Rezai, Shahram
Steelhorst, Michael
Zhang, Liping
Zhang, Wei-Bin
Zhou, Kun
Zhou, Xeusong
2010

The US DOT RITA Volpe Center entered into a cooperative agreement with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to establish the inaugural SafeTrip 21 field test site in the San Francisco Bay area [named Connected Traveler]. Specifically, the site encompasses I-880 from Oakland to San Jose on the east bay and from San Jose to just south of the San Francisco International Airport, along U.S. 101 and California State Route (SR) 82. The site includes the SR-84 Dumbarton Bridge toll crossing, which links I-880 and U.S. 101. Caltrans's partners include the Metropolitan...

Case Study: Road Pricing In Practice

Levinson, David
1997

This report examines the history of turnpikes. It attempts to present an understanding of the reasons behind the decline and restoration of turnpikes. It also develops evidence for an explanatory hypothesis of the choice by jurisdictions to finance roads using tolls

A Research Roadmap for Transportation and Public Health

Sandt, LS
West, A
Johnson, S
Brookshire, K
Evenson, K
Blackburn, L
Peach, K
Tartala, M
Ricklin, A
Shah, S
Rodriguez, D
Coburn, J
2019

Develop a holistic and strategic research roadmap–Identify evidence to support practical and useful information, and implementable tools, for state DOTs and partners.

TASK A-1: Motivations Behind Electronic Road Pricing. What is the Driving Force Behind the Worldwide Rise in Tolling? A Review of Innovative Road Pricing from Across the Globe

Kalauskas, Rebecca
Taylor, Brian D.
Iseki, Hiroyuki
2009

The report identifies the motivations behind and objectives of specific road pricing initiatives, and to explore why such policies are becoming an increasingly popular approach to transportation finance and management. Over the past 15 years, electronic road pricing projects have appeared in a variety of forms across the globe – from the Interstate 15 High-occupancy toll (HOT) Lanes in San Diego County, to the congestion cordon pricing scheme in central London, to the German weight-distance truck toll system, to the Oregon mileage-based user fees pilot program. While the stated objectives...

EDAPTS Benefit/Cost Evaluation

Jia, Xudong, PhD
Sullivan, Edward, PhD
Nuworsoo, Cornelius, PhD
Hockaday, Neil
2008

This technical report summarizes the benefit/cost evaluation of the SLO Transit EDAPTS ITS system. It provides a detailed description of the methodologies and procedures used, as well as the research findings resulting from the evaluation effort. Using passenger questionnaire, boarding time surveys and interviews with SLO Transit drivers and administrators, the research team collected and estimated various benefits and costs of the SLO Transit EDAPTS system and conducted a benefit/cost (B/C) ratio analysis on the EDAPTS system. Also the research team performed a sensitivity analysis of B/C...

Institutional Aspects of Bus Rapid Transit Operation

Miller, Mark A
Buckley, Stephen M.
2001

This report presents the findings of its investigation of institutional aspects of bus rapid transit (BRT) through both a macroscopic examination, a survey of members of the U.S. Bus Rapid Transit Consortium and several Canadian transit properties, and a more focused site-specific examination of three California BRT systems. The macroscopic examination resulted from a literature review, project team brainstorming meetings, and input from the Federal Transit Administration. Several dozen issues were identified and were grouped into nine categories that formed the basis of the survey:...

Roadway Powered Electric Vehicle Project Parametric Studies: Phase 3D Final Report

Systems Control Technology
1996

This study looked at the application of electrification and automation to freeways in the Los Angeles region. The report is broken down into the following sections: Development and Enhancement of Analysis Tools, Inductive Coupling System Design, Value Engineering of Roadway Cores, and Economic Analysis of Roadway Powered Electric Vehicle (RPEV) Technology.

Revenue Models for Advanced Traveler Information Systems

Yim, Y. B.
2001

The paper describes current trends in the traveler information supply system and the prospect for potential markets for advanced traveler information in the United States and Europe. Alternative revenue models are identified that may be able to support the operation of the newly created traveler information centers in the post-field operational test phase. In the past, public agencies have been reluctant to share traffic management responsibilities with the private sector. However, this study found that the current trend is toward a public-private partnership in the form of a franchised or...