Technologies That Enable Congestion Pricing—A Primer

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Table of Contents

• The Primer Series and the Purpose of This Volume
• Congestion-Pricing Options
  
• Functional Processes for Tolling and Congestion Charging
• Primary Tolling and Pricing-System Components
  • Paper-Based Systems
  • Manual-Toll Facilities
  • Image-Based Tolling/Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) Technology
  • DSRC Free-Flow Toll Using Transponders and Gantries
  • VPS Technologies
  • Cellular Telephone and Pico-Cell Systems
  • Combination Systems
• Sub-System Technologies
  • Informing and Providing Standardized Signs and Lane Markings
  • Vehicle-Occupancy Detection Technologies
  • Vehicle-Identification and Classification Systems
  • Telecommunications: Roadside and Centralized Control Equipment
  • Automation of Operations
  • Payment Systems for Pre- and Post-Payment of Tolls and Charges
  • Secondary Enforcement
  • System Reliability and Accuracy of DSRC Systems
  • OBU Distribution Facilities
  • ITS Integration
    
• Acronym List/Glossary
• References
  

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October 2008

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