Search Benefits, Costs, Lessons Learned

Special Search Areas

Displaying 1 - 10 of 18

Content type

Focus on Meaningful Community Engagement, Investing Revenues, and Collecting High Quality Data to Make Congestion Pricing Equitable.

As cities increasingly turn to congestion pricing, ensuring equity in congestion pricing is a critical concern. To study this issue, a research team at the Institute of Transportation Studies at…
Content type
Lesson
Date Posted
01/25/2021
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Vancouver, Canada   |   New York City, New York, United States   |   Seattle, Washington, United States   |   Singapore, Singapore   |   London, England   |   Stockholm, Sweden   |   Gothenburg, Sweden

Meta-study outlines lessons learned from the implementation of downtown congestion pricing in five cities across Europe and Asia.

This study found five key lessons learned from implementation of congestion pricing. These lessons are: Vehicle exemptions are highly consequential and often increase traffic to a surprising degree…
Content type
Lesson
Date Posted
08/14/2020
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Singapore, Singapore   |   London, England   |   Stockholm, Sweden   |   Milan, Italy   |   Gothenburg, Sweden

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
Benefit
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
Singapore

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
Benefit
Date Posted
01/31/2013
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Singapore   |   Singapore

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
Benefit
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

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
Lesson
Date Posted
10/31/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Singapore   |   Czech Republic   |   Germany   |   United Kingdom   |   Netherlands   |   Sweden

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
Lesson
Date Posted
10/21/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Singapore   |   Germany   |   United Kingdom   |   Netherlands

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
Lesson
Date Posted
10/11/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Singapore   |   Czech Republic   |   Germany   |   England   |   Netherlands   |   Sweden

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
Lesson
Date Posted
10/11/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Singapore   |   Czech Republic   |   Germany   |   England   |   Netherlands   |   Sweden

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
Lesson
Date Posted
10/11/2011
Taxonomy (ARC-IT) Integrated Decision Support and Demand Management (TM09), Road Use Charging (TM11)
Geolocation links
Singapore   |   Czech Republic   |   Germany   |   England   |   Sweden
ITS Deployment Evaluation

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS JOINT PROGRAM OFFICE

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590

its.dot.gov

Focus Areas

Benefit Data

Cost Data

Deployment Statistics

Decision Support

Success Strategies

ITS Taxonomy

Help

Contact

Topics

Commercial Vehicle Operations

Data Management

Maintenance and Construction

Parking Management

Public Safety

Public Transportation

Support

Sustainable Travel

Traffic Management

Traveler Information

Vehicle Safety

Weather

 

U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R)
 
 
Web Policies and Notices | Accessibility | Careers | FOIA | Privacy Policy | Information Quality | No FEAR Act Data | Ethics
Civil Rights | Office of Inspector General | OIG Hotline | BusinessUSA | USA.gov | White House