This document of 21 articles that explores the modern transportation funding and user-pays principle; road uses charges in Washington state; use of private roads to promote sustainable mobility; economic impacts of a vehicle-miles-traveled fee for passenger vehicles in Nevada; and an express lane performance evaluation; and an examination of paid travel on I-85 Express Lanes. This issue also assesses the conversion of I-85 high-occupancy vehicle to a high-occupancy toll in Atlanta, Georgia; a GPS-based assessment of equity impacts of large-scale electronic freeway tolling in Gauteng, South Africa; an evaluation of the Urban Partnership Agreement in Seattle, Washington and its impact on transit; and pay-as-you-drive insurance. Additionally, this TRR examines public-private partnership tenders; local government funding and financing of roads in Virginia; a new tool to understand the value-for-money concepts in public-private partnership options; an option game model for optimizing concession length and public subsidies of public-private partnerships; and financing infrastructure projects using public-private partnerships in India. This TRR also explores emerging public-private partnerships in China’s rail mass transit; public-private infrastructure cooperatives; U.S. toll road trends since 1950; tolling initiatives for high-occupancy toll facilities under variable demand; an economic evaluation of trends in travel time reliability in road transportation; and an alternative to the Kentucky weight-distance tax.


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    Title :

    Revenue, Finance, and Economics. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2450


    Publication date :

    2014


    Size :

    190 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English