Analysis of Toll Discounts on Nationwide Expressway in Japan

As for the expressway toll, deployment of the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system enabled setting various toll levels by time of the day. A variety of toll discounts have been applied to tackle with road transport issues and for economic stimulation. For expressways managed by Japan’s three expr...

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Published inTransportation research procedia (Online) Vol. 48; pp. 2511 - 2526
Main Authors Kutsukake, Toshio, Mohri, Yuichi, Oka, Hideki, Kaneko, Shoichi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 2020
Subjects
Consumer Surplus Analysis
Expressway
Toll Discounts
Traffic Simulations
Expressway
Traffic Simulations
Consumer Surplus Analysis
Toll Discounts
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Summary:As for the expressway toll, deployment of the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system enabled setting various toll levels by time of the day. A variety of toll discounts have been applied to tackle with road transport issues and for economic stimulation. For expressways managed by Japan’s three expressway companies (NEXCO Central, NEXCO East and NEXCO West), this study performs 1) elucidation of the change in the traffic conditions, user properties, etc. associated with toll discounts by means of traffic data, ETC user data, etc., 2) traffic assignment simulations for the nationwide road network, and 3) grasping of the effects of each toll discount through consumer surplus analysis using the simulation results.
ISSN:2352-1465
2352-1465
DOI:10.1016/j.trpro.2020.08.258