DYNAMIC TOLLING Next-generation traffic management allowing to reduce traffic congestion and air emission by dynamically adapting toll tariffs of electronic toll collection systems

摘要

Due to increasing road traffic transport policy together with traffic engineers have to find new approaches and concepts for managing traffic effectively. This paper discusses a next-generation traffic management concept allowing to reduce traffic congestion and air emission by dynamically adapting toll tariffs of electronic toll collection systems. The paper provides an overview about existing systems with variable / dynamic tariffs, objectives and effects, possible use cases, pricing strategies as well as political and legal aspects of dynamic tolling.