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Develop public outreach programs based on the cultural and political context of the project location and provide clear, salient, and timely messages about the purpose and benefits of congestion pricing.
Congestion pricing programs face political, institutional, and public acceptance challenges and concerns everywhere in the world. Over a 12-day period, from December 7 to 18, 2009, a…
Content type
Date Posted
10/31/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Understand that while the viability of pricing programs is impacted by political actions, pricing signal is a potential tool for developing a sustainable transportation system.
Congestion pricing programs face political, institutional, and public acceptance challenges and concerns everywhere in the world. Over a 12-day period, from December 7 to 18, 2009, a…
Content type
Date Posted
10/21/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Consider advantages of open-source designs and beware of legal challenges in road pricing systems procurement.
Congestion pricing programs face political, institutional, and public acceptance challenges and concerns everywhere in the world. Over a 12-day period, from December 7 to 18, 2009, a…
Content type
Date Posted
10/11/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Use business and functional requirements to guide technology selection for a road pricing program and understand that the technology selected initially evolves over time.
Congestion pricing programs face political, institutional, and public acceptance challenges and concerns throughout the world. Over a 12-day period, from December 7 to 18, 2009, a multidisciplinary…
Content type
Date Posted
10/11/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Enforce congestion toll collection and create integration linkages between pricing system and motor vehicle registries to process violations.
Congestion pricing programs face political, institutional, and public acceptance challenges and concerns everywhere in the world. Over a 12-day period, from December 7 to 18, 2009, a…
Content type
Date Posted
10/11/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Consider stakeholder outreach and education, transport modes that offer an alternative to driving, performance measurement, and area geography with high importance in the planning phase for road pricing programs.
Congestion pricing programs face political, institutional, and public acceptance challenges and concerns everywhere in the world. Over a 12-day period, from December 7 to 18, 2009, a…
Content type
Date Posted
03/31/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
For successful implementation of a road pricing program, strive for simplicity in policy goals and strong championing of the program by the executive and legislative leaders.
Congestion pricing programs face political, institutional, and public acceptance concerns everywhere in the world. Many of these concerns can be solved or overcome when the road pricing policy and…
Content type
Date Posted
03/08/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Be prepared to face the opportunities and challenges posed by political timetables, project deadlines, as well as pricing-equity issues for road pricing procurement and implementation.
Congestion pricing programs face political, institutional, and public acceptance challenges and concerns everywhere in the world. Over a 12-day period, from December 7 to 18, 2009, a…
Content type
Date Posted
03/07/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Define clear goals and pay attention to key institutional and technical factors for successful implementation of road pricing programs.
Over a 12-day period, from December 7 to 18, 2009, a multidisciplinary scan team from the United States visited and interacted with the experts in Europe and Asia to develop an understanding of the…
Content type
Date Posted
03/03/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Study shows that utilizing distributed parking facilities can improve the overall performance of an Automated Mobililty-on-Demand system
Methodology
This extension was used to explore the effects of different fleet sizes on customer waiting times for two models:
1. A station-based model where cars self-drive back to stations
2. A…
Content type
Date Posted
01/06/2017
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Dynamic Transit Operations (PT03),
Transit Stop Request (PT15),
Route ID for the Visually Impaired (PT16),
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Shared Use Mobility and Dynamic Ridesharing (TI06)
Geolocation links
In Singapore, the Electronic Road Pricing program has enabled maintaining target speeds of 45 to 65 kilometers per hour on expressways and 20 to 30 kilometers per hour on arterials.
Singapore's Electronic Road PricingGeographic constraints and its unique political structure as a city-state allowed Singapore to implement congestion pricing beginning in 1975 with a paper-based…
Content type
Date Posted
01/31/2013
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
In Singapore, the Electronic Road Pricing program has enabled maintaining target speeds of 45 to 65 kilometers per hour on expressways and 20 to 30 kilometers per hour on arterials.
Singapore's Electronic Road PricingGeographic constraints and its unique political structure as a city-state allowed Singapore to implement congestion pricing beginning in 1975 with a paper-based…
Content type
Date Posted
01/31/2013
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Variable Pricing Systems worldwide indicate an increase in transit use and improved travel times and speeds system wide (priced lanes and general purpose lanes).
FINDINGSConversion of HOV lanes to HOT lanesEarly evaluations in San Diego (I-15 FasTrak) and Houston (US-290 and I-10 QuickRide) indicated that HOV to HOT conversions can increase lane use by 21 to…
Content type
Date Posted
11/30/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Parking Electronic Payment (PM03),
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11),
Electronic Toll Collection (TM10)
Geolocation links
Singapore | Statewide, Florida, United States | Florida, United States | Houston, Texas, United States | San Diego, California, United States | California, United States | San Francisco, California, United States | Hoboken, New Jersey, United States | Statewide, Oregon, United States | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States | Washington, United States | London, England
Since introducing Electronic Road Pricing in the late 90's, Singapore has reduced weekday traffic in the "Restricted Zone" by 24 percent, resulting in an increase in the average speed of 10 kilometers per hour.
Findings from Singapore
Singapore is an island nation with land area of 250 square miles. Its population has grown from 2.3 million in 1975 to 4.5 million (3.5 million in the city) in 2005. The…
Content type
Date Posted
02/12/2010
Taxonomy (ARC-IT)
Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09),
Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
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