Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes
There is a wide disparity between the goals that
state departments of transportation (DOTs) have for priced managed lanes and
the public assumption for those goals. The public tends to
be highly skeptical of priced managed lanes because the concept is difficult to explain
to a nontechnical
audience.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's
NCHRP Synthesis 559: Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes
provides an overview of the state of the practice of how state DOTs address
challenges to implementing tolling, or pricing, on their managed lane systems.
The synthesis
entailed an extensive literature review of 60 publications and over 700 online media articles, a
survey distributed to all 50 state DOTs, and a sampling of six case examples that explained specific
examples of how agencies addressed challenges.
This Summary Last Modified On: 9/4/2020