Samenvatting
Costs and revenues for conventional toll plaza operations are examined. Information on highway user costs is assembled and incorporated into the economic evaluation. An analytical method is presented for estimating user costs of toll plaza operations. Applied to an example scenario, the method indicates that conventional toll collection systems are inherently economically infeasible. The amount of toll to be charged should be a function of vehicular demand as well as the implied value of time. This paper appears in transportation research record no. 1305, Finance, planning, programming, economic analysis, and land development 1991.