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Finance, Pricing, Economics, and Economic Development

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2115 includes 16 papers that explore a financial model to assess the value capture potential of a roadway project, catastrophe bonds for transportation assets such as bridges, private funding of intermodal exchange stations in urban areas, value for money analysis in public-private partnerships, revenues from a statewide congestion pricing program, and developing a value-pricing project. This issue of the TRR also examines road pricing as an impetus for environment-friendly travel behavior, transit's effect on mileage responses to road pricing, impacts of congestion pricing on retail trade, policy options for truck user charging, impact of incentives on toll road use by trucks, evaluating estimation techniques of transportation price elasticity, impact of two-part pricing scheme on social welfare for congested networks, vehicle mileage fee on income and spatial equity, benefits analysis of travel time reliability from automated detection, and effects of transportation accessibility on residential property values.

    
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