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A-1 | P a g e Appendix A: Literature Review The objective of NCFRP 19: Truck Tolling -- Understanding Industry Tradeoffs When Using or Avoiding Toll Facilities is to identify the value that goods movement businesses seek from the transportation roadway network and their willingness to pay tolls for that value. This literature review examines the extent to which existing journals, program accounts and industry research sources have confronted those same issues.
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A-2 | P a g e also studies where VOT is offset by a as little as 22 percent or as much as 100 percent of the wage rate (Washington State Department of Transportation, 2010)
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A-3 | P a g e that did not change behavior (67 percent) cited the inflexibility of receivers to accept off-peak deliveries as the key reason.
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A-4 | P a g e vehicles, legal compliance with routing is quite good, and LCV drivers rarely, if ever, deviate from their legal route. There are of course some truck operators that exceed legal weight limits, without permits.
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A-5 | P a g e Truesdale, a former regional director of the U.S. government's border crossing operations and head of the company behind the HTT, had the following opinion of truck tolls at border crossings: Toll costs are often not the major consideration at border crossings.
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A-6 | P a g e toll charges (if any) into its price.
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A-7 | P a g e Of these five, types 3 through 5 may or may not have an option for the shipper to reimburse the carrier for toll cost back to the terminal or to the next pickup. The review of these contracts is revealing.
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A-8 | P a g e Consequences of Inaccurate Toll Estimation Trucks typically pay 200% - 1,000% the automobile toll rate at toll facilities (Kriger, et al., 2006)
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