intelligent transportation trends chpt.5 - tolling and enforcement
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The term Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) was coined over two decades ago to designate applications of information and communication technologies to the operational management of transportation networks. The main promise of ITS has been very consistent over that period: network capacity can be freed up by optimizing traffic controls and empowering users with accurate travel information. It can be debated how much faith practitioners and policy makers have placed in technology by investing their resources, as well as the extent to which Intelligent Transportation Systems have delivered on their promise. However, there is no question that steady and sometimes spectacular advances in computing technologies and usage trickle down to transportation applications in important ways. As a result, new products and services emerge continuously. They include systems that address the direct needs of networks managers, as well as others that are developed in tangential markets (e.g. automotive) or even through non-market mechanisms (e.g. many mobile web applications). This talk presentation reviews major trends in information and communication technologies and demonstrate how each of them is driving innovative transportation services. We attempt to envision how those trends might develop in the future, so that we can finally examine some of their implications for travel demand and network management. There lie both challenges and opportunities for transportation engineers and planners, but either way, profound changes appear inevitable.TRANSCRIPT
Intelligent Transportation Trends and Perspectives
2011
J.D. Margulici
www.novaviasolutions.com
Chapter 5: Tolling and Enforcement
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ITS primer and brief history
State of the art: tolling & enforcement
Information technology trends
Prospective and implications
J.D. Margulici
www.novaviasolutions.com
Intelligent Transportation
Trends and Perspectives
2011
Transportation Funding
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Not only is the Highway Trust Fund running a deficit, current spending
levels are inadequate to even maintain existing infrastructure in the long run
Transit Electronic Fare Payment Systems
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Electronic Tolling and Enforcement
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Texas Turnpike (Austin)
Road User Charges
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Parking Payment / Enforcement
Add Streetline, SF Park…
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Red Light Enforcement
850 fatalities, 170,000 injuries / year (NHTSA)
Systems reduce red light running, but safety benefits are moderate
Typically split revenue between provider and city
Big business – Total Addressable Market $3B by some estimates
Carlyle Group, Macquarie to acquire Redflex Holdings for $304m
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Red Light Enforcement: Safety Benefits
Combined results for seven jurisdictions
Right-angle crashes Rear end crashes
Total crashes Definite
injury Total
crashes Definite injury
EB estimate of crashes expected in the after period without RLC 1,542 351 2,521 131
Count of crashes observed in the after period
1,163 296 2,896 163
Estimate of percentage change (standard error)
- 24.6 (2.9)
- 15.7 (5.9)
14.9 (3.0)
24.0 (11.6)
Estimate of the change in crash frequency - 379 - 55 375 32
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FHWA-HRT-05-049, April 2005
Speed Enforcement
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Source: Cochrane Collaboration based on a review of 35 published studies
Speed reduction
1-15%
Speeding reduction
14-65%
Crash reduction
8-49%
VASCAR (Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder)
Automated Speed Enforcement Deployment: France
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Occupancy Enforcement
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Intelligent Transportation Trends and Perspectives
2011
J.D. Margulici
www.novaviasolutions.com
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