Road User Charging and Electronic Toll Collection
Year: 2006
Type: other
Abstract: Serving as a road map to today’s technologies, systems, regulatory issues, and pricing schemes for electronic toll collection and road-user charging, this authoritative book helps professionals cut through the maze of available solutions and design options, so they can match the right technology to their policy needs. A valuable resource for government officials, industry staff and students, this practical resource presents: • Pricing and traffic management principles that easily establish and evolve policies and pricing schemes; • Easy-to-follow end-to-end steps in system planning, technology selection, procurement and operations; • Ways to implement an effective enforcement regime, while obeying laws on user privacy and balancing costs with returns; • Guidance on the charging process and technologies, vehicle classification, standards and regulatory environments, and back-office operations; • Case studies and best practice examples from around the world showing successful local, regional, and cross-border policies for tolling, road use pricing and traffic demand management; • Identifying and examining new technologies, policies and trends that may have an impact on the design of future generations of electronic tolling and road user charging schemes..
Authors: ATW Pickford, Philip Blythe
Institution: Newcastle University
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W630745016