Value pricing strategies are beginning to be considered for future improvements in suburban areas that currently do not experience significant congestion but are expected to become congested in the future. This is a significant departure from implementing these strategies in congested urban areas as is commonly done now. Therefore, traveler reaction in these suburban areas is unknown. To plan and design value pricing projects most effectively, it will be necessary to gain an understanding of suburban travelers' potential reaction to value pricing. Responses to a survey of travelers using the eastern and western segments of Interstate 10 (I-10) outside of San Antonio were used to study differences in response to value pricing by suburban population groups. These surveys collected information on travelers' socioeconomic and trip characteristics as well as their attitudes towards value pricing in the form of potential Express Toll Lanes (ETLS). Stated preference scenarios presented to survey respondents were used to develop mode choice models. These models were used to determine characteristics that may impact the decision to choose to travel on the general purpose lanes (GPLs) or the ETLs. This research suggests that the implementation of value pricing strategies on suburban corridors may pose a challenge from a policy standpoint. The populations using these corridors appear to be more varied in their responses toward value pricing than populations using congested urban corridors. Overall, it was found that the majority of travelers on I-10E and I-10W are not favorable to the implementation of value pricing for the future expansion of these corridors. However, I-10W travelers seem to be more willing to pay for travel time savings. This is likely due to the fact that travelers on I-10W earn higher average incomes, are more likely to use I-10W on a regular basis for commute purposes, and are more often exposed to some traffic congestion. Conversely, travelers on I-10E are more likely to use I-10E less frequently for non-commute trips, travel longer distances, and probably do not have an intuitive sense of the value they would place on travel time savings since they do not regularly experience congestion.

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Im vorliegenden Artikel werden Moeglichkeiten zum Einsatz von STEP als Basis einer systemneutralen und rein anwendungsbezogenen Produktdatenmodellierung vorgestellt. Dabei wird auf einen CA-systemneutralen Ansatz der Betriebsdatenhaltung reflektiert, fuer welchen als praedestinierte Systeme objektorientierte Datenbanken zum Einsatz kommen sollen. Auf dem Wege der produktstruktur- basierten Modellierung von Daten kann der Anwender produktspezifische Anforderungen beruecksichtigen. Ausserdem kann die Auswahl der einzusetzenden CA-Systeme nach rein funktional-wirtschaftlichen Kriterien erfolgen.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-125). Also available via World Wide Web.

published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Master / Master of Science in Real Estate and Construction

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on April 4, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Ballarat, 2003. / "CP830 Research Project and Thesis 2". Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-93).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 129-136) Also available in print.