Comparison of Tolls with Estimated Full Marginal Costs: Theory Meets Reality
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In this paper, we attempt to estimate the additional tolls that can be charged to drivers at the New Jersey Turnpike using the full marginal cost functions. The available data set used in this study consists of individual vehicle records in 2005 at the NJTPK. Vehicle-by-vehicle entry/exit times, entry/exit locations, vehicle types, payment type of each vehicle are available in the data set. From this dataset it is possible to calculate the hourly link volumes, car/truck distribution at each link and travel times between all origin-destination pairs. Using the NJTPK specific data and the developed cost functions, we estimate the range of the additional tolls for various OD pairs. We show that the estimated values highly depend on value-of-time assumptions and the choice of the travel time function. Furthermore, the differences between the estimated additional tolls during peak and off-peak are also presented. TRB 2008 Annual Meeting CD-ROM Paper revised from original submittal.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007