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8 This chapter gathers and summarizes agency and project experiences with implementing pricing on managed lanes. The sources of material are from published academic literature, design guidance, media reports (e.g., published and online media)
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Literature Review 9 dynamic tolling to not only optimize speeds in the express lanes but also to ease congestion in the parallel general-purpose lanes (Perez et al., 2011)
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10 Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes Specifically, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 permitted tolling on noninterstate federal-aid highways.
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Literature Review 11 Once a managed lane facility becomes degraded, the regulation requires that the facility be brought into compliance by "increasing the occupancy requirement, varying the toll charged to vehicles to reduce demand, increasing the available capacity of the HOV facility or dis continue allowing non-HOV vehicles." Relatedly, if the facility becomes degraded, the transportation agency must submit a remediation plan to FHWA within 180 days of the determination (Baldwin, 2009)
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12 Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes hard caps on outstanding debt, details the use of electronic toll collection (ETC) systems, and defines the requirements for account holders (Perez et al., 2012a)
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Literature Review 13 Performance Management Performance Metrics To assess priced managed lane projects, project sponsors use performance measures and metrics (Perez et al., 2011)
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14 Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes Performance metrics tend to significantly vary based on the performance goals of the project (FHWA, 2011)
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Literature Review 15 annual performance reports on the MnPASS I-35W HOT lanes (Perez et al., 2011)
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16 Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes the maximum toll price is unyielding and inelastic, regardless the situation. However, when a toll cap is soft, the maximum toll price is flexible and adjustable, under certain circumstances.
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Literature Review 17 Beyond price management controls, transportation authorities of priced managed lane projects frequently use mitigation to manage congestion (Fitzpatrick et al., 2016)
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18 Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes MnDOT spent $608,860 on enforcement expenditures in 2017 for the I-394 MnPASS and I-35W MnPASS priced managed lanes, which composed 31.19% of the entire operations and maintenance expenditures for the year (Buckeye, 2012)
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Literature Review 19 (Fitzpatrick et al., 2016)
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20 Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes help the public comprehend priced managed lanes by delivering a clear and consistent message throughout all project phases (Donald et al., 2013)
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Literature Review 21 sessions in 2011, that the successful way to increase support for priced managed lane projects was to use communication practices that highlight the benefits for individuals and clearly and specifically articulate compelling values (Swanson and Hampton, 2013)
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22 Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes Politicians may misinterpret the general public opinion about priced managed lane projects because of a few vocal critics who have different views from the general population (Zmud and Arce, 2008)
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Literature Review 23 In the same way, North Carolina's 77 Express Lanes project faced significant resistance because of the public-private partnership, as evidenced by a bill passed by the North Carolina House of Representatives to cancel the problematic toll contract with Cintra in 2016 (Morrill, 2016)
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24 Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes Explicitly, participants associated the project with improvements toward the general-purpose lanes as well as enhancements toward public transportation (Ross, 2019)
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