Development of an Enhanced Toll Project Screening Model
Record Type: UTC

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. Both as an early screening tool and as a continuing reasonableness test, an enhanced toll project viability 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. In addition, the enhanced screening tool will analyze the confidence of the resulting revenue estimates and the sensitivity of the model’s results to the input variables. This project builds on the “Toll Viability Screening Tool (TVST)” developed by Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) in conjunction with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in a research project completed in 2004.
Start date: 2009/1/5
End date: 2009/9/30
Status: Completed
Contract/Grant Number: DTRT06-G-0044
Secondary Number: 00030
Total Dollars: 65000
Source Organization: University Transportation Center for Mobility
Date Added: 01/21/2009
Index Terms: Toll roads, Tolls, Infrastructure, Financing, Screening programs, Revenue generation, Toll revenues, Texas, Research projects,

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Tooley, Melissa S
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Beaty, Curtis
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