Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes (2020) / Chapter Skim
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56 This synthesis provided 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.
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Conclusion 57 However, only seven states listed revenue generation as a major goal. In contrast, the literature review cited overwhelming evidence from surveys, focus groups, and media reviews that demonstrates that the public assumes that all priced managed lanes seek to generate revenue.
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58 Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes quantifiably show a comparison between two different alternatives with the same number of lanes -- one with tolling and one without. Communication and Public Engagement As with most tolling and pricing programs, agencies cite challenges with their attempts to communicate and engage with the public and key stakeholders.
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Conclusion 59 manual, or human-based, review process. WSDOT also encountered similar enforcement-related problems for the I-405 Express Toll Lanes.
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60 Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes benefit from standardization of key performance measures that can be used to compare different facilities nationwide. Future research on the topic of performance monitoring would benefit from recent advances in the data sciences field and the wealth of tolling and operational data generated from operating priced managed lanes.
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Conclusion 61 from increasing tolls above the maximum cap. Most of the alternatives relied on attempts to improve the carpool compliance rate (or reduce violators)
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