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VPP Projects Involving Tolls
Category: Priced Roadways
Sub-Category: Priced Tollways

Project - PENNSYLVANIA: Variable Tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike

The project involved a study of the potential for value pricing strategies to alleviate congestion; to facilitate the timely, efficient, and economical movement of commercial vehicles to industrial and commercial destinations; and to improve the movement of daily commuter vehicles to and from the workplace. Concurrent with the value pricing study, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) implemented electronic toll collection (E-ZPass) for travel between the ticket interchanges on its mainline system.

Study Completed

The final report summary can be accessed from the FHWA Web site at: http://knowledge.fhwa.dot.gov/cops/hcx.nsf/All+Documents/750C4F311CB4924A85256DC500657FE0/$FILE/Summary PA Turnpike Final Report.pdf. Despite the prediction of favorable results the turnpike decided not to adopt variable tolls.

For More Information Contact

Robert J. Smith
Director of Finance
PA Turnpike
Phone: (717) 939-9551, extension 2432
E-mail: rsmith@paturnpike.com

George L. Hannon
Special Assistant
PA Turnpike
Phone: (717) 939-9551 extension 5124
E-mail: ghannon@paturnpike.com


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