Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Tolled Facilities

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an evaluation study of the behavioral impacts of a high-occupancy toll (HOT) lane project in Minnesota. The I-394 MnPASS Express Lane Project is the fifth HOT lane project implemented in the United States. HOT lanes remain a new enough concept that there is little empirical information on methods for evaluating them or on their impacts on travel behavior for transportation planners and policy makers to use when making decisions about future facilities. The MnPASS evaluation study is significant not only because it uses a panel design but also because it involved multiple waves of stated preference (SP) experiments. These waves were conducted before and after project implementation. This paper uses information from the evaluation study to examine two significant issues: (a) How applicable is a panel design to evaluating road pricing projects? and (b) How does willingness to pay vary on the basis of before-and-after iterations of the SP experiments?

Determining explanatory factors for road demand in interurban toll roads : an asserted approach

“…Respondents belonging to the interval with the highest income (\50,000 Euro) are statistically more willing to pay when compared to the base case, in line with previous research (Zmud et al 2007;van den Berg 2014;, according to which the VOT increases with income. With regard to the type of user, potential ones significantly show a lower WTP (-0.7 Euro) when compared to actual users (frequent and occasional).…”

“…By contrast, the literature analyzing users' perceptions on interurban areas is limited and primarily deals with American High Occupancy/Toll (HOT) lanes, such as Zmud et al (2007) and . The terms 'perceptions' and 'attitudes' have both been used in the literature as almost synonyms to address users' view towards tolls.…”

“…With a total of 2264 km, this sample can be considered representative of the Spanish toll network, as it includes around 75 % of total tolled km in the country. We would like to note that it is an extensive network when compared to other toll systems previously analyzed, both interurban toll networks Zmud et al 2007) or toll point facilities, such as bridges or tunnels .…”

Users’ perceptions and willingness to pay in interurban toll roads: identifying differences across regions from a nationwide survey in Spain

“…By contrast, the literature analyzing users' perceptions on interurban areas is limited and primarily deals with American High Occupancy/Toll (HOT) lanes, such as Zmud et al (2007) and Golob (2001). The terms 'perceptions' and 'attitudes' have both been used in the literature as almost synonyms to address users' view towards tolls.…”

“…With a total of 2264 km, this sample can be considered representative of the Spanish toll network, as it includes around 75 % of total tolled km in the country. We would like to note that it is an extensive network when compared to other toll systems previously analyzed, both interurban toll networks (Odeck and Kjerkreit 2010;Zmud et al 2007) or toll point facilities, such as bridges or tunnels (Yusuf et al 2014;Gordon and Peters 2011).…”