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Congestion charges good: PANYNJ

Port Authority officials think there is promise in variable toll rates as a traffic management tool. They began with differentiated toll rates by time of day March 25, 2001. Assessment has been complicated by the ructions of 9/11/01 and the lack of normal traffic patterns, but a paper prepared by assistant director Mark Muriello and planning manager Danny Jiji says that its "value pricing" has enhanced PANYNJ toll... MORE

A thousand km new pike in Texas

Texas DOT is looking at huge toll proposals for its "IH-35 High Priority Trans Texas Corridor" (35TTC). It involves 1,000km (600mi) of highway on new alignment north-south across the state from Denison at US-59 on the Oklahoma border to the Rio Grande River an the Meixcan border crossings at McAllen/Reynosa... MORE

UMN finds only best GPS will toll

Tests by engineers at the University of Minnesota suggest that only a presently expensive form of satellite based GPS called NDGPS is accurate enough for tolling. Only the highest quality in-vehicle receivers costing $3,000 apiece and improved digital maps will do the job... MORE

Orlando's tollroad adventures - a history

Building roads is an adventure and it can make for great stories. Take Orlando's Southern Connector now better known as FL-417 or the southern portion of the Central Florida Greeneway. Located on the southern fringe of the developed area it was a dicey finance back in the late 1980s when it was planned... MORE

All Austrian motorways to toll trucks Jan 1, 2004

All 2,000km (1,200mi) of Austria's motorways are being wired for DSRC (shortrange electronic tolling), the immediate application of which is a nationwide toll system for trucks of over 3.5t (7700pd). Four hundred overhead gantries of equipment are going in for fire-up in the new year. It will be the first  national motorway system with full DSRC coverage. Only the old tollroads and toll tunnels retain conventional toll plazas. All the new tolling is with... MORE

Houston TX: toll increases for new pikes

Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA) is raising tolls for cars 25c, Nov 1, potentially boosting revenues about 30%. At present 2-axle vehicles at mainline toll plazas in Houston TX pay $1.00 cash and 75c by transponder (EZ TAG). At ramp plazas tolls are currently 25c, 30c, 35, 50c, and 75c with the lower