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Pricing Road Use to Manage Peak Demand
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Abstract
This paper reports an analysis of potential costs and revenues to apply road pricing in Melbourne. Objectives of road pricing are assumed to be reduced peak period congestion and raising of funds for transport infrastructure.
The analysis provides a broad understanding of opportunities for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) to be applied to road pricing; using Melbourne as a test case.
Road pricing can take many forms from simple flat annual charges with fuel consumption based variable charges through to systems which charge vehicle owners according to actual road use.
IVHS developments will be the key to the implementation of socially acceptable systems which charge according to actual use - or a form of charging which partially meets this objective.
As pressure on road funds increases over the next decade, there is likely to be greater emphasis on the use of IVHS technologies to change the way in which road infrastructure is managed.
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Howie, D., "Pricing Road Use to Manage Peak Demand," SAE Technical Paper 912771, 1991, https://doi.org/10.4271/912771.Also In
References
- Inter-State Commission “Road Use Charges and Vehicle Registration: A National Scheme” AGPO Canberra 1990
- Inter-State Commission report
- Australian Bureau of Statistics “Survey of Motor Vehicle Usage Australia” Catalogue No. 9208.0
- Road Construction Authority document “1986 Traffic Volumes, Estimate of Typical Weekday Traffic on Victorian Arterial Roads”