Revenue, Finance, Pricing, and Economics
TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR), No. 2450: Revenue, Finance, Pricing, and Economics consists of 21 articles that explores the modern transportation funding and user-pays principle; road uses charges in Washington state; use of private roads to promote sustainable mobility; economic impacts of a vehicle-miles-traveled fee for passenger vehicles in Nevada; and an express lane performance evaluation; and an examination of paid travel on I-85 Express Lanes.
This issue also assesses the conversion of I-85 high-occupancy vehicle to a high-occupancy toll in Atlanta, Georgia; a GPS-based assessment of equity impacts of large-scale electronic freeway tolling in Gauteng, South Africa; an evaluation of the Urban Partnership Agreement in Seattle, Washington and its impact on transit; and pay-as-you-drive insurance.
Additionally, this TRR examines public-private partnership tenders; local government funding and financing of roads in Virginia; a new tool to understand the value-for-money concepts in public-private partnership options; an option game model for optimizing concession length and public subsidies of public-private partnerships; and financing infrastructure projects using public-private partnerships in India.
This TRR also explores emerging public-private partnerships in China’s rail mass transit; public-private infrastructure cooperatives; U.S. toll road trends since 1950; tolling initiatives for high-occupancy toll facilities under variable demand; an economic evaluation of trends in travel time reliability in road transportation; and an alternative to the Kentucky weight-distance tax.
This Summary Last Modified On: 5/5/2016