Toll pricing and its relationship to travel demand, elasticity, and distribution of economic activities for Hampton Roads Virginia.

A methodology is described that projects simultaneously travel demand and distribution of population and employment. The result of testing future alternative conditions for crossing Hampton Roads are used to illustrate the impact of changes in new facilities and toll pricing on travel demand, average vehicular trip length, trip purpose, and distribution of future population and employment. The findings in this paper offer an alternative method to the projection of a single-demand estimate used in most urban area transportation studies.