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Liberating road users: Options for progress

Explore the various options for liberating road users, including express toll lanes and per-mile charging. Discover the benefits and challenges of these approaches and learn how GPS-based systems can revolutionize road financing. Take the next steps towards a market-based road system.

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Liberating road users: Options for progress

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  1. Liberating road users:Options for progress

  2. How are road users constrained? Governments determine • Charges for road use • Allocation of revenues • Provision of new capacity Liberating road users at ADC

  3. Two plausible approachestowards market system Provide express toll lanes Introduce per-mile charging

  4. Express toll lanes • Introduced in 1995, on 10 miles of California’s State Route 91 • Tolls Electronically collected and prices adjusted to reduce congestion to to minimal levels • Travelers have the choice of paying tolls to save time • Used by members of all income classes Liberating road users at ADC

  5. “HOT” networks in eight US urban areas • Proposed in 2003 by Bob Poole and Ken Orski in “Reason” Policy Study. Updated in 2006 as chapter 19 of “Street Smart”. • Cost of 8 networks could be $50 billion Term “HOT” [“High-Occupancy or Toll”] unfortunate, as exemptions for high-occupancy vehicles are damaging Liberating road users at ADC

  6. Per-mile charging • Recommended in 2009 by Congressional Commission, because fuel taxes were not producing enough revenues to satisfy politicians • Charges could vary for different roads and on different times of the day • Would be desirable as a stage in commercializing roads — moving them into the market economy Liberating road users at ADC

  7. For a market in road space to work: All roads should be tolled Road users should pay the road providers, segment by segment Only GPS-based systems can meet these requirements

  8. GPS-based charging systems • Vehicles carry meters, which record distances travelled • Distances, but no trip details, transmitted to billers • Billers debit road users • Billers credit road providers • Eliminates need for government road financing Liberating road users at ADC

  9. Siemens On-Board Unit Liberating road users at ADC

  10. Problems with GPS-based charging systems • Fears (groundless) that vehicles could be “tracked” to invade privacy • Fears (well-grounded) that, in the USA, cost-based road-use charges would exceed current charges paid via fuel taxes Liberating road users at ADC

  11. How, then, to introduce GPS-based road pricing? Not all vehicles can be equipped at once, so offer rewards and seek volunteers in test areas • Rewards can include: • Distance-based insurance premiums • Remission of annual license fees • Easier street parking Liberating road users at ADC

  12. Plausible next steps: • Accelerate the provision of express toll lanes • Introduce trials of voluntary GPS-based road-use fees, as alternative to existing road-use taxes • Oregon already had successful pilot project Liberating road users at ADC

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