Congestion Pricing
Listed below are selected resources for the study of congestion management, congestion pricing and HOT Lanes.
- Bibliographies
- Websites
- Reports and Studies - Government
- Reports and Studies - Private Institutions
- Newsletters
- Conference Proceedings
- Articles & Papers
- Testimony
- Survey Results
- Videos
DPG Library's Selected bibliography of Full-Text Congestion Pricing Reports available online
DPG Library's Selected bibliography of Full-Text Road Pricing Reports available online
Texas Transportation Institute (TTI). Managed Lanes.
http://managed-lanes.tamu.edu/products/
Transportation Research Board (TRB). Committee on HOV Systems. HOV World.
http://www.hovworld.com/publications.htm
California, Bay Area. Metropolitan Transportation Commission. High-Occupancy-Vehicle (HOV) and High-Occupancy/Toll (HOT) Lanes.
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/planning/hov/
European Platform on Mobility Management
http://www.epommweb.org/
European Transport Pricing Initiative - CUPID - Coordinating Urban Pricing Integrated Demonstrations
http://www.transport-pricing.net/reports22.html
Federal Highway Administration. Congestion Pricing – A Primer
http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/congestionpricing/index.htm
Federal Highway Administration. A Guide for HOT Lane Development
http://www.its.dot.gov/JPODOCS/REPTS_TE/13668.html
Federal Highway Administration. Focus on congestion relief
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/congestion/
Federal Highway Administration. Value Pricing Pilot Program.
http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/tolling_pricing/value_pricing/index.htm
HOT Lanes: Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.reason.org/pb59_hotlanes.pdf
Houston Metro. Metro Solutions. High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes Update.
http://metrosolutions.org/go/doc/1068/138186/
London Congestion Pricing Program
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/congestioncharging/
Metropolitan Transportation Commission – HOV/HOT Lanes
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/planning/hov/
New York City. Transportation Alternatives. Congestion Pricing Resources.
http://www.transalt.org/campaigns/sensible/congestion/resources.html
Reason Foundation – Transportation and Tolls
http://www.reason.org/transportation/
SANDAG FasTrak (San Diego)
http://www.sandag.org/index.asp?classid=29&fuseaction=home.classhome
Texas Highwayman Editorial - Toll Roads
http://www.texhwyman.com/tolleditorial1.htm
The Toll Roads (Orange County)
http://www.thetollroads.com/home/index.htm
Transportation Alternatives - Congestion Pricing
http://www.transalt.org/campaigns/congestion
University of Minnesota - Herbert Humphry Institute. Value Pricing.
http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/slp/vp/vp_org/index.html
UK Commission for Integrated Transport - Road User Charging
http://www.cfit.gov.uk/ruc/index.htm
USDOT Urban Partnerships
http://www.upa.dot.gov/
Virginia DOT – HOV/Bus?HOT Lanes
http://www.virginiadot.org/projects/HOT_main.asp
Virginia Hot Lanes. I-95/395 Project.
http://www.virginiahotlanes.com/
Wikipedia – Congestion Pricing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing
Wikipedia – High Occupancy Tolling –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-occupancy_toll
Wikipeida – Road Pricing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_pricing
Wisconsin Department of Transportation. SR-167 HOT Lanes Pilot Project.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR167/HOTLanes/
Reports and Studies - Government:
Congestion Pricing: A Primer. Federal Highway Administration, December 2006.
http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/congestionpricing/congestionpricing.pdf
Estimating Toll Road Demand and Revenue. National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Syntheses 364.
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_364.pdf
Facts and Results from the Stockholm Trials. 2006. Congestion Charge Secretariat, City of Stockholm, Sweden.
http://snipurl.com/29y1t
HOT Lane Development Guidebook. Federal Highway Administration, March 2003.
http://www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov/JPODOCS/REPTS_TE/13668.html
Central London Congestion Charging Scheme: ex-post evaluation of the quantified impacts of the original scheme. Blake Shaffer and Georgina Santos (2007)
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/ex-post-evaluation-of-quantified-impacts-of-original-scheme-07-june.pdf
Oregon's Mileage Fee Concept and Road User Fee Pilot Program - Final Report, November 2007
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/RUFPP/docs/RUFPP_finalreport.pdf
Regional HOT Lanes preliminary findings. Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Planning Committee. December 2006.
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/planning/hov/12-6-06_ppt_to_MTC_Planning_Committee.pdf
Santa Clara HOT Lanes Feasiblity Study. Final Report. Valley Transportation Authority. December 2005.
http://198.66.245.238/projects/hot_lanes/hot_final.pdf
Washington State Comprehensive Tolling Study Volume 1. Washington State Transportation Commission. 2006.
http://www.wstc.wa.gov/Tolling/WS_TollStudy_FinalReport_V1.pdf
Reports and Studies - Private Institutions:
Congestion pricing: A smart solution for reducing traffic in urban centers and busy corridors. Environmental Defense. (2007).
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/page.cfm?tagID=6241
Easing California’s Transportation Crisis with Tolls and Public-Private Partnerships. Robert W. Poole, Jr. Policy Study 324. January 2005. Reason Foundation.
http://www.reason.org/ps324.pdf
Electronic toll collection. California Center for Innovative Transportation.
http://www.calccit.org/itsdecision/serv_and_tech/Electronic_toll_collection/electron_tollcollection_report.html
HIGH OCCUPANCY/TOLL LANES: Phasing in Congestion Pricing a Lane at a Time. Gordon J. Fielding and Daniel B. Klein. 1993.
http://www.reason.org/ps170.html
HOT Networks: A New Plan for Congestion Relief and Better Transit. Robert W. Poole, Jr. and C. Kenneth Orski. Policy Study 305. February 2003. Reason Foundation.
http://www.reason.org/ps305.pdf
Orange County's 91 Express Lanes: A Transportation and Financial Success, Despite Political Problems. By Robert W. Poole, Jr. Policy Brief 39. March 2005. Reason Foundation.
http://www.reason.org/pb39.pdf
Role of Tolls in Financing 21st Century Highways. Peter Samuel and Robert W. Poole, Jr. Policy Study 359. May 2007. Reason Foundation.
http://www.reason.org/ps359.pdf
Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletter
http://www.reason.org/surfacetransnews.shtml
Toll Road News Online
http://www.tollroadsnews.com/
12th International HOV Systems Conference. Improving Mobility and Accessibility with Managed Lanes, Pricing, and BRT. Federal Highway Administration and the Transportation Research Board. April 2005.
http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/12hovsysconf/index.htm
International Symposium on Road Pricing. Federal Highway Administration and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. January 2003.
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conf/cp34roadpricing.pdf
Road Pricing Workshop. Transportation Research Board, Summer Meeting, 2005.
http://managed-lanes.tamu.edu/related_work/TRB/Pricing_Workshop/workshop_disc_TRB_content.html
Automobile Dependency: Transportation and Land Use Patterns That Cause High Levels of Automobile Use and Reduced Transport Options. TDM Encyclopedia. Victoria Transport Policy Institute. 2007.
http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm100.htm
Central London Congestion Charging Scheme: ex-post evaluation of the quantified impacts of the original scheme. Blake Shaffer and Georgina Santos. 2007.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/ex-post-evaluation-of-quantified-impacts-of-original-scheme-07-june.pdf
Comments on the New York City Traffic Congestion Mitigation Plan. New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2007.
http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/pdf/mtacpreport.pdf
Congestion Pricing for Los Angeles: An Open Letter to L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Robert W. Poole of the Reason Foundation Argues for HOT Lanes on the region's freeways. The Planning Report. July 2007.
http://www.planningreport.com/tpr/?module=displaystory&story_id=1259&format=print
Congestion Pricing for New York : Benefits for the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island . Report for Transportation Alternatives. Schaller Consulting. 2008.
http://transalt.org/files/newsroom/reports/cp_benefits.pdf
Congestion charging mechanisms for roads : an evaluation of current practice. Timothy Hau. World Bank. 1992.
http://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/1071.html
Continuation study to evaluate the impact of SR 91 value priced express lanes final report. Sullivan, E. California Polytechnic State University. 2000.
http://ceenve3.civeng.calpoly.edu/sullivan/SR91/final_rpt/FinalRep2000.pdf
Economic Fundamentals of Road Pricing. Tim Hau. World Bank. 1992.
http://www.econ.hku.hk/~timhau/road_pricing.pdf
Electronic toll collection. Smith, L & Benko, M. 2007. California Center for Innovative Transportation.
http://www.calccit.org/itsdecision/serv_and_tech/Electronic_toll_collection/electron_toll_collection_report.html
Evaluation of public opinion about congestion pricing and tolls. Ulberg, C., & MacFarland, G. 1995. Washington State Department of Transportation.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/research/reports/fullreports/377.1.pdf
Fair and Efficient Pricing in Transport - The Role of Charges and Taxes. Oscar Faber. European Commission DG TREN in association with EC DG TAXUD and EC DG ENV. 2000.
http://www.thepep.org/ClearingHouse/docfiles/EU%20taxing%20transport.pdf
HOT Lanes: A Better Way to Attack Urban Highway Congestion. Robert W. Poole Jr . and C. Kenneth Orski. Regulation. Vol. 32, No. 1. Cato Institute.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv23n1/poole.pdf
HOT Lanes Allure - Mitigating growth's impact -- and paying for it. Washington Post. Thursday, May 10, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050902313.html
HOT Lanes in Houston–Six Years of Experience. MW Burris, BR Stockton. Journal of Public Transportation. Vol. 7. No. 3. 2004. University of South Florida. nctr.usf.edu
http://www.nctr.usf.edu/jpt/pdf/JPT%207-3%20Burris.pdf
Managed Lanes. Jon Obenberger. Public Roads. Nov/Dec. 2004.
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/04nov/08.htm
Paying the Value Price - Managing congestion with market-based strategies may be the wave of the future. Patrick DeCorla-Souza, Angela Jacobs, Shannon Ballard, and Theresa Smith. Public Roads. Sep/Oct. 2003.
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/03sep/09.htm
Road Pricing - Congestion Pricing, Value Pricing, Toll Roads and HOT Lanes. TDM Encyclopedia. Victoria Transport Policy Institute. 2007.
http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm35.htm
William Vickrey (1992), Principles of Efficient Congestion Pricing. Vickrey, William. Columbia University. 1992. http://www.vtpi.org/vickrey.htm
Tolling, HOT Lanes Spread In U.S., Creep Forward In Puget Sound. Cascadia Prospectus. January 2008. http://www.cascadiaprospectus.org/2008/01/tolling_spreads_across_us_cree.php
U.S. GAO. Congestion Pricing Has Promise for Improving Use of Transportation Infrastructure. Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee. U.S. Congress. May 2003.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03735t.pdf
U.S. GAO. Highway Finance – States’ expanded use of tolling illustrates diverse challenges and strategies. Report to congressional requestors. June 2006.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06554.pdf
Metropolitan Transportation Commission (California, Bay Area) 2002 High-Occupancy-Vehicle Lane Master Plan Update for the San Francisco Bay Area. HOV Survey Responses.
http://www.mtc.ca.gov/planning/hov/survey_results.htm
University of Minnesota – Herbert Humphry Institute. Value Pricing.
Attitudinal Panel Survey Wave 2 Final Report. (I-394 congestion pricing)
http://www.hhh.umn.edu/img/assets/20844/MnPassfinalreport3_27_06.pdf
Powerpoint presentation: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/img/assets/20944/0327.ppt
"It's Time" - NYC Congestion Pricing Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ny8Onevxko
Michael O'Loughlin vs David Weprin on Congestion Pricing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHYgoTmT3rI
Doctors and health advocates for congestion pricing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvL1foOno_U
I-394 MnPASS Express Lanes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPc2z0qPedQ
Less Traffic and Pollution for NY with Congestion Pricing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RjJt7KY620
Nicky Gavron, Deputy Mayor of London
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8-WmuboZcA
Contested Streets - documentary trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEcJnZtBQy8
Austin Now - Toll Roads Part 1 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTPeBC3tH2k
Austin Now - Toll Roads Part 2 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hAfblQCf14
Toll Road Profits to Leverage Mass Transit Debt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fKtIjkh-zA
NYC: Congestion Pricing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj_ueXZd-M8
London Congestion Charging
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntd9Fyq6Jj4
Reaping the benefits of the congestion charge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcNgxNE_49M
HOV Lanes in Puget Sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNTzazDIHuI
Pay to pass?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgP520GU3vo
SR 167 HOT Lanes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccg53scxdsc&feature=related
VDOT Gears Up For HOT Lanes Construction
http://download.gannett.edgesuite.net/wusa/news/043008_aubhotlanes5p_wusa.mov