Measure of benefits from a toll road facility/case study: the Tsitsikama toll road
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2015-05-12
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Kennedy, William Irwin
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This project report examines the effects of toll on travel behaviour in
an effort to predict the effect of alternative toll pricing policies on
the toll revenue collected. The fundamental problem of transportation
planning is to predict the behaviour of consumers faced with a particular
choice set of travel opportunities, if the response of consumers
can be predicted then the impact of alternative policies can be assessed
and the best policy selected.
Since travel behaviour is influenced by many factors the report
endeavours to identify and obtain direct measurement of all factors
concerned before concentrating on the sole effects of toll. The methods
used in the report include field tests for obtaining information on
travel costs, traffic surveys for establishing trip patterns and a
roadside interview for ascertaining traffic behaviour. All work was
carried out on South Africa's only toll road, the Tsitsikamma Toll Road
in the Eastern Cape Province.