Texas Transportation Institute. University Transportation Center for Mobility

UTCM 09-22-02

Tech Report

Texas

Final report; Jan. 2009¿Sept. 2009.

Texas Transportation Institute. University Transportation Center for Mobility

NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE ; NTL-ECONOMICS AND FINANCE-Funding ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICY ;

With agencies and states increasingly considering tolls as a means to finance transportation infrastructure,

there is an increasing need to quickly assess the feasibility of potential tolling projects. In the early stages

of a project when an agency—either public or private—merely wants to see the possibility of future traffic

and tolled revenues, there still exists a need for a tool to capture basic assumptions and perform

preliminary forecasting calculations to see if a project even warrants further examination as a toll road.

Both as an early screening tool and as a continuing reasonableness test, this early-stage toll revenue

estimation model will allow a user to simultaneously examine the interaction of multiple tolling variables

and traffic scenarios so that agencies can make more informed decisions. The authors develop a standalone,

spreadsheet-based model that prepares early-stage traffic and toll revenue estimates. The model

allows users to examine a potential tolled project as a single phase or multiple phases—up to three—then

examine the results individually or cumulatively.

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