Characteristics of the truck users and non-users of Texas toll roads.

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• Creators:
  Prozzi, Jolanda ; Rutzen, Beatriz ; Robertson, Chris ; Prozzi, Jorge ; Walton, C. Michael
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Tolls
  • Toll roads
  • Toll collection
  • Trucks
  • Central Texas Turnpike System
  • toll roads
  • truck market segments
  • toll road users
  • toll transactions
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-10/0-6044-2 Volume 2
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Department of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office
• Abstract:
  As the use of toll roads increase to finance new road infrastructure or add capacity to existing road infrastructure, the ; question of who use and do not use toll roads becomes increasingly important to toll road developers, financiers, ; Traffic and Revenue consultants, and investors, among others. The latter pertains specifically to truck usage of toll ; facilities. Given the high revenue margin brought in by trucks – i.e., truckers often pay between two and five times ; the toll rate levied on cars – it is critically important to have robust data and information about truckers’ potential ; usage of toll facilities. This research study thus attempted to characterize truck toll road users and non-users of ; Texas toll roads. Trucking company respondents (108) to an internet and telephone survey that was conducted in the ; Summer and Spring of 2009 were categorized as truck users and non-users of Texas toll roads and statistical analysis ; was conducted to provide insight into the characteristics and differences between truckers that choose to use toll ; roads and those that choose to avoid toll roads. The report also includes a detailed analysis of actual transaction data ; from the Central Texas Turnpike System. This actual data coupled with the information and perceptions expressed in ; the surveys provide considerable insight into the characteristics of the truck users and non-users of Texas toll roads.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-6044
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18672/dot_18672_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.28 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9e7dd41e1a514c10bcfffa6bc82ed60908d4357ca668f9d66949ec25962bbbd1