Developing tolled-route demand estimation capabilities for Texas : opportunities for enhancement of existing models.

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• Creators:
  Hall, Kevin ; Kockelman, Kara ; Mullins, Andy ; Chen, T. Donna ; Fagnant, Dan ; Boyles, Stephen
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Estimating Toll Facilities Travel Demand Urban Areas User Charges
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-14/0-6754-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Department of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office
• Abstract:
  The travel demand models developed and applied by the Transportation Planning and Programming Division
  
  (TPP) of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) are daily three-step models (i.e., trip generation, trip
  
  distribution, and traffic assignment sequentially invoked). Currently, TxDOT TPP does not have a procedure to
  
  account for existing or planned toll roads in the urban travel demand models. TxDOT TPP has been operating under
  
  guidance established when toll roads existed as planned facility improvements in either the interim or forecast year
  
  model applications. Although the larger urban areas in Texas have embraced tolled facilities for quite some time (i.e.,
  
  Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin), roads that charge users a fee to bypass congestion or provide alternative
  
  routes have only been implemented recently in a select few small to medium-sized urban areas still under the purview
  
  of TxDOT TPP model development. In order to calibrate base year travel models with operational toll roads or models
  
  with planned tolled facilities, TxDOT TPP needs a procedure to account for facilities that charge fees to the user. For
  
  the tolled facilities currently operational in small to medium-sized study areas, the fees are fixed and are not dynamic
  
  by time of day or congestion levels.
  
  The technical objective of this research report is to provide TxDOT TPP with a menu of potential procedures
  
  that could be selected for implementation in the current Texas Package suite of travel demand models to reasonably
  
  estimate toll road demand, primarily for the small to medium-sized urban areas. Nationally, generally two approaches
  
  are used: a path-based system and a choice-based system. Researchers reviewed both approaches as well as different
  
  supplemental techniques (i.e., time of day, market segmentation, and mode choice) implemented nationally and within
  
  the state that are complementary to any toll demand estimation techniques. Challenges and considerations for each of
  
  the approaches are reviewed and presented. The procedures and applications reviewed in this project are not intended
  
  to replace or compete with existing toll-financing-level analysis.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Project 0-6754
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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