Reducing Traffic Congestion: Using Market Prices to Enhance Mobility: The High Cost of Idling

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• Alternative Title:
  Reducing Traffic Congestion: Using Market Prices to Enhance Mobility: The High Cost of Idling: Report to Congress on the Progress and Accomplishments of the Congestion Pricing Pilot Program
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy Development
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Congestion pricing
  • Traffic congestion
  • Engine idling
  • Lessons learned
  • Policy
  • Congestion Pricing Pilot Program
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-PL-98-037
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Description:
  This is the Department of Transportation's 1997 biennial report on the Congestion Pricing Pilot Program, as required by Section 1012(b) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, P.L. 102-240. The report highlights the significant progress that has been made in implementing pilot tests of congestion pricing and bringing congestion pricing to the attention of transportation planners and policy makers throughout the United States. The report is organized in the following sections: Executive Summary; The High Cost of Idling; What Can Be Done About It?; Projects in Motion; The Role of FHWA's Congestion Pricing Pilot Program; Lessons Learned; and Conclusions and a Look to the Future.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14998/dot_14998_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 30.83 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1fa2228dda2bea2597ce141daffd0616383ba7ecd90459811b3a05169b109d4faf0133789c0925bdabf4bfcc8c32f71b9b49507dbee271d49134b14a310663de