Truck Tolling: Understanding Industry Tradeoffs When Using or Avoiding Toll Facilities (2012) / Chapter Skim
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1 | P a g e Executive Summary There is a long history of using tolls to finance roads, bridges and other infrastructure. In America, toll road financing diminished in the 1950s, in favor of using fuel taxes to fund the Interstate Highway System and other freeway/expressway facilities.
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2 | P a g e • Typical Driving Environment • Opportunity/Familiarity with Toll Roads To execute this research project, three primary modes of data collection were used: 1) extensive literature review and outreach to leaders representing trucking companies, shippers, and third party logistics providers.
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3 | P a g e for the time savings offered by a toll facility. These findings provide an opportunity to expand the understanding of toll road benefits, leveraging users who are already familiar with toll facilities.
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4 | P a g e Possible Options The research findings highlight the depth of passionate opposition to truck tolls, perhaps more clearly than surmised at the beginning of the effort. Policy makers will face opposition from the trucking industry in any discussion of expanded toll finance policies, or individual toll road proposals.
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