The Impacts of Road Pricing on Businesses


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An Institutional Analysis Across Economic Sec. Road pricing is the name given to a variety of systems which charge road users a fee to mitigate the social costs of using their vehicles. The charges can be introduced to alleviate the costs of delays caused by congestion, environmental problems and the




Special Report


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Behavioral Responses to Policy and System Changes 2007


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TRR no. 2010 includes 14 papers that explore the effect of the built environment on motorized and nonmotorized trip making, travel time information influence on network flow, multitasking and the value of travel time savings, revealed parking choices and the value of time, multimodality, process model of voluntary travel behavior modification, and behavioral impacts of the New Jersey Turnpike time-of-day pricing initiative. This issue of the TRR also examines modeling the timing of user responses to a new urban public transport service; automobiles, trips, and neighborhood type; impact of carpooling on trip-chaining behavior and emission reductions; willingness to pay for parking at suburban malls;impact of reduced parking standards on parking supply; telecommuting; and transportation and communications - substitutes, complements, or neither.




Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS


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The 17 chapters in this book, which evolved from a conference on measuring the contributions of ITS sponsored by the California Department of Transportation in February 2002, examine the costs and benefits of ITS in an economic and business policy context. Section 1 examines the broad theme of how and what ITS contributes to the economy and how one makes a business case for ITS. Section 2 includes three chapters on ITS applications in mass transit. Section 3 explores ITS applications in the automobile/highway system. Section 4 considers integrative issues including how ITS is perceived and how it can be positioned to improve surface transportation. This volume will be especially useful to researchers and policy makers working in transportation, transportation engineering, and the economic analysis of transportation systems.







Public Roads


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Resources in Women's Educational Equity


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Literature cited in AGRICOLA, Dissertations abstracts international, ERIC, ABI/INFORM, MEDLARS, NTIS, Psychological abstracts, and Sociological abstracts. Selection focuses on education, legal aspects, career aspects, sex differences, lifestyle, and health. Common format (bibliographical information, descriptors, and abstracts) and ERIC subject terms used throughout. Contains order information. Subject, author indexes.