Congestion pricing is one of the major travel demand management policies to reduce traffic volumes in metropolitans. One of the main factors for effective implementation of this policy is to analyze users' response to different toll rates. In this paper, the willingness of users to pay for using their personal cars is evaluated. The stated preference method was applied for data gathering. Sever...

In order to solve the problem of highway standardization management ability description, evaluation and improvement, in this paper, a highway standardization management maturity evaluation model has firstly been put forward. Moreover, the influence highway qualitative factors of implementing the standardized management have analyzed and its evaluation index system has constructed. Furthermore, ...

A link layer controller is derived using a vehicle density conservation ow model. Control laws are considered for three highway topologies: a single lane highway, a highway with multiple discrete lanes and a highway with an arbitrary 2 dimensional ow pattern. The control laws obtained for each of the topologies is distributed and is very suited for implementation at lower levels of the AVHS con...

Rural highway is the foundation of highway network construction and the important bridge for balancing urban and rural harmonious development. Rural highway has the basic, pilot and driving function to new rural construction. This paper took a sampling survey on 173 villages in Hebei Province. According to the 687 questionnaires, this paper set up an evaluation system of the rural highway const...

For the use of national highway network Lithuania, freight vehicles pay a fee fixed amount using system purchasing electronic vignettes (hereinafter referred to as e. vignettes). The tax is paid for certain period (day, week, month, or year) regardless distance traveled by vehicles. Such taxation model does not value “polluter pays” principle enshrined in EU legislation and allow covering damag...

BY XIAOYUE CATHY LIU, E.I.T., YINHAI WANG, PH.D., BASTIAN J. SCHROEDER, PH.D., AND NAGUI M. ROUPHAIL, PH.D. Introduction According to the 2011 Urban Mobility Report,1 roadway congestion cost a total of $101 billion and induced a total delay of 4.8 billion hours in the United States in 2010, with approximately 60 percent of the congestion occurring on freeways. Strategies have been implemented t...

Highway transportation crashes are the leading cause of fatal injuries in the United States for both workers and the general population (1,2). Prevention of work-related highway transportation deaths, and highway transportation deaths in general, are long-standing public health priorities (1,3). To assess trends and help guide the prevention of occupational highway transportation deaths, CDC an...