Cost allocation by uniform traffic removal— Theoretical discussion and example highway cost applications |
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Authors: | Chris Hendrickson Anthony Kane |
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Institution: | Department of Civil Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, U.S.A.;Office of Program and Policy Planning, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC 20590, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | We propose four properties for equitable roadway cost allocations: (a) allocated costs should be based on full cost recovery, (b) allocated costs must be non-negative for any traveler group, (c) cost allocations should be additive, and (d) cost allocations should be consistent where equivalency factors among traffic categories exist. For cases with well-behaved cost functions, the uniform traffic removal technique discussed here uniquely satisfies these four properties and should be used whenever the four allocation properties are desired. Example applications as well as cases in which cost functions are not well behaved are discussed. |
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