Curbing congestion : improving traffic flow, transit, and transportation funding through value pricing.

Abstract

The Minnesota value pricing advisory task force is a diverse group of stakeholders that seeks to build political support for implementation of a value pricing demonstration project. Value pricing refers to the use of electronically collected peak-period tolls to manage rush hour traffic flow and to provide revenue for enhanced transit service, limited highway expansion, and other transportation improvements. The task force believes that while value pricing cannot solve the congestion problem by itself, that it can, when combined appropriately with other policies, help traffic flow more smoothly while helping to improve the environment and make transportation system financing more equitable.