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Curbing Gridlock: Peak-Period Fees to Relieve Traffic Congestion -- Special Report 242 (1994)
Transportation Research Board (TRB)

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National Research Council. "Front Matter." Curbing Gridlock: Peak-Period Fees to Relieve Traffic Congestion -- Special Report 242. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1994. 1. Print.

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CURBING GRIDLOCK: Peak-Period Fees To Relieve Traffic Congestion

Contents

VOLUME 1: Committee Report and Recommendations

 

  

Executive Summary

  

1

 1

  

Introduction

  

16
   

 Impetus for Congestion Pricing,

  

18
   

 Resistance to Congestion Pricing,

  

23
   

 Outline of Report,

  

24

 2

  

Theory and Experience

  

27
   

 Theory,

  

27
   

 Application,

  

30
   

 Experience,

  

31

 3

  

Possible Effects

  

39
   

 Impact on Travel,

  

40
   

 Net Benefits,

  

45
   

 Distributional Effects,

  

46
   

 Commercial Traffic,

  

48
   

 Air Quality,

  

49
   

 Energy,

  

52
   

 Urban Form,

  

53
   

 Summary,

  

54

 4

  

Technical and Political Feasibility

  

58
   

 Technical Feasibility,

  

59
   

 Political Feasibility,

  

64
   

 Summary,

  

77

 5

  

Design, Evaluation, and Research

  

81
   

 Design Issues,

  

81
   

 Evaluation,

  

86
   

 Other Research,

  

91

 6

  

Summary

  

97
   

 Possible Effects,

  

100
   

 Political Feasibility,

  

102
   

 Importance of Evaluation,

  

102

 Appendix A

  

Traffic Congestion

  

104

 Appendix B

  

Theory, Experience, and Estimated Effects

  

117

 

  

Study Committee Biographical Information

  

140
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