Value Pricing Pilot Program Projects Involving Tolls: Priced Roadways

This project category includes Priced Tollways and High Performance Highways.

Listed below each project category are projects that are currently being studied or have been completed. Each category includes a more detailed description of projects, an update of its current quarterly status, and a contact name for those seeking additional information about the project.

• Priced Tollways
• High-Performance Highways

Priced Tollways

This category of pricing introduces variable tolls on all lanes of roadway facilities (e.g., roads, bridges and tunnels) that already have fixed tolls, or are being constructed as toll facilities. In all cases where variable tolls have been implemented in the U.S., variable toll rates have applied only to motorists paying electronically, while cash toll rates have remained fixed all day. The goal is to reduce congestion by encouraging shifts to off-peak periods. Toll authorities have often introduced variable tolls in conjunction with planned increases in the fixed cash toll rate and marketed the variable pricing program as an off-peak discount program for those paying electronically.

Projects

• CALIFORNIA: Peak Pricing on the San Joaquin Hills Toll Road in Orange County
• FLORIDA: Pricing on Bridges in Lee County
• FLORIDA: Value Pricing on the Sanibel Bridge and Causeway in Lee County
• FLORIDA: Variable Tolls on the Sawgrass Expressway in Broward County
• FLORIDA: Variable Tolls for Heavy Vehicles In Lee County
• FLORIDA: Pricing Options on the Florida Turnpike in Miami-Dade County
• GEORGIA: Variable Pricing Institutional Study for the GA-400 in Atlanta
• ILLINOIS: Illinois Tollway Value Pricing Pilot Study
• ILLINOIS: Integrating and Financing Transit with Managed Lanes
• NEW JERSEY: Variable Tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike
• NEW JERSEY: Variable Tolls on Port Authority Interstate Crossings
• NEW JERSEY: Express Bus/HOT Lane Study for the Lincoln Tunnel
• PENNSYLVANIA: Variable Tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike
• TEXAS: Truck Traffic Diversion Using Variable Tolls in Austin

High-Performance Highways

According to the high-performance highway concept, transportation operators charge variable tolls on toll-free highways on all lanes but only during congested periods on critical congested segments, not on the entire system. The variable toll dissuades some motorists from using limited-access highways at critical bottleneck locations where traffic demand is high and where surges in demand could push the highway over the threshold at which traffic flow collapses.

Project

• WASHINGTON: Variable Priced Tolls on SR 520 in Seattle

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