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Resources and References P A R T 2
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3.1 Domestic Scan of Congestion Pricing and Managed Lanes A recent survey by DKS Associates of selected MPOs and state DOTs in 10 metropolitan areas examined how they are planning for congestion pricing and managed lanes (DKS Associates, February 2009)
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Important findings include the following: • A large proportion of MPO respondents to surveys believe their agencies lack resources and/or expertise to carry out transportation planning. Given that road pricing is a relatively new concept, it is likely many MPO planners may feel challenged analyzing and incorporating pricing into regional plans.
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Several planning screening criteria important to consider in planning road pricing include: • Congestion relief potential • Consistency with state and regional plan goals • Ability to improve the efficiency of the regional transportation network • Public acceptance • Institutional feasibility • Safety impacts • Order-of-magnitude construction cost • Revenue generation potential • Financial viability 3.6 Federal Interim Guidebooks and Briefing Book Federal planning regulations and guidance is important to devising any planning framework and directly bears on how regional and state planners conduct transportation planning. FHWA and FTA have developed a briefing book that summarizes the transportation planning process and two interim guidebooks addressing the integration of management and operations and the congestion management process in metropolitan transportation planning.
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-- those metropolitan areas with over 200,000 population -- must have a congestion management process that includes congestion management objectives and identifies "travel demand" and "operational strategies"; road pricing is a logical candidate for consideration as a strategy. The CMP is intended to be fully integrated into the metropolitan transportation planning process.
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Another path may be lesser reviews or an exemption, particularly for pricing projects on existing facilities, where trip reduction and air quality benefits are clear cut and where revenues support auto use alternatives. Summary of Literature Review on Planning for Road Pricing 63
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Prior experience: Familiarity with proven examples or prior local experience aids in explaining and bringing forth RP concepts and plans. In the San Francisco Bay Area, acceptable project proposals for HOT lanes to be implemented in the near term in Santa Clara paved the way for a regional HOT network plan.
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In Portland too, House Bill 2120 was passed, directing the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to develop pilot programs for congestion pricing and to test alternatives to the fuel tax; House Bill 2001A was passed in 2009 that allowed the Oregon Department of Transportation to make the mileage-fee based road pricing program permanent and implement a congestion pricing pilot program within 3 years.
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, and parking management. 66 Road Pricing: Public Perceptions and Program Development
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In Dallas, all road pricing projects have undergone emissions analysis and are included in conformity assessments, including contributions to mobile source emissions inventories as part of the long-range planning process. Congestion management process: RP has been successfully integrated into the congestion management process in some cases, though the fit depends on the specific type of pricing program proposed and the scale of application.
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Federal planning guidance: Planning guidance from the federal government was not believed to have much influence on RP planning, as experience in San Francisco and Dallas shows; however federal research studies, support for technical analysis, conferences, and best practice documents are valuable in RP planning; e.g., in Los Angeles, a federally supported symposium helped gain 68 Road Pricing: Public Perceptions and Program Development
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In the San Francisco Bay Area, the MTC HOT Executive Committee was established to oversee the overall network plan, with further plans for specific corridors. Los Angeles uses the South Bay Council of Governments to reach out to local elected officials and seeks support of grassroots organizations in specific corridors to generate support.
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Stronger federal support to technical research 70 Road Pricing: Public Perceptions and Program Development
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region. • Voluntary participation option: Voluntary participation in pricing programs, at least initially, helps gain acceptance, as shown by the Park Smart parking pricing program in New York City and the mileage-fee pilot program in Portland.
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