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Value Pricing Pilot Program Planning and Decision Making Tools

Provides tools that can be used by transportation analysts to estimate the impacts of congestion pricing strategies.

Tool for Rush-hour User Charge Evaluation (TRUCE)

This sketch-planning tool, called Tool for Rush-hour User Charge Evaluation, i.e., TRUCE, has been developed by Patrick DeCorla-Souza, FHWA, to assist transportation professionals in the "ball park" estimation of the potential impacts of a high performance highway facility or network, in particular the costs, benefits and revenues from operation of a high performance highway network.

  • TRUCE Model - Users' Guide Version 2.0 (HTML, PDF 70KB)
  • TRUCE Model - Interactive Spreadsheet Version 2.0 (Excel, 72KB)

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