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Venter, C.J. (Christoffel Jacobus)
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Joubert, Johannes Willem
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2015-08-25T05:06:16Z |
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dc.date.available |
2015-08-25T05:06:16Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014 |
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dc.description.abstract |
As user charging increasingly supplements taxation as a transport financing mechanism
worldwide, the need to measure and understand its distributional impacts across affected groups
grows more critical. The case of the 185-km Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project in the
Johannesburg-Pretoria area of South Africa offers an opportunity to empirically examine the
equity impacts of large scale road pricing in middle-income countries. The paper reports on the
novel use of GPS data from multiple sources to assess the distribution of benefits and costs of
electronic tolling across passenger and freight users. GPS data from commercial truck fleets are
combined with multiday GPS tracks from a panel of private vehicle drivers to derive measures
of user benefit by class. Compared to an alternative hypothecated fuel tax, electronic tolling is
more progressive in terms of both income and vehicle class, as it transfers costs from private to
commercial vehicles, in line with the greater pavement damage caused by trucks. Time-of-day
discounts favour commercial vehicles, suggesting that the injudicious application of discounts
and exemptions can distort rather than enhance equity in road pricing projects. |
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dc.description.librarian |
hb2015 |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
Partially funded by the South African National Roads Agency Ltd. (SANRAL). |
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dc.description.uri |
http://trb.metapress.comcontent/0361-1981 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Venter, CJ & Joubert, JW 2014, 'Tax or toll? GPS-based assessment of equity impacts of large-scale electronic freeway tolling in Gauteng, South Africa', Transportation Research Record, vol. 2450, pp. 62-70. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0361-1981 |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.3141/2450-08 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/49466 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies |
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dc.rights |
National Academy of Sciences |
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dc.subject |
GPS-based assessment |
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dc.subject |
Equity impacts |
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dc.subject |
Large scale |
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dc.subject |
Electronic freeway |
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dc.subject |
Tolling in Gauteng |
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South Africa (SA) |
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dc.subject |
Global positioning system (GPS) |
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dc.title |
Tax or toll? GPS-based assessment of equity impacts of large-scale electronic freeway tolling in Gauteng, South Africa |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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