Congestion Pricing

August 2007

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Federal Government
Congressional Hearings
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on Highways and Transit (Thursday, June 7, 2007)
Witnesses
Panel 1
The Honorable Jeffrey N. Shane
The Honorable J. Richard Capka
The Honorable James S. Simpson

Dr. Timothy J. Lomax
Ms. Peggy Catlin
Mr. Craig Stone

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
Public Interest Concerns of Public-Private Partnerships (June 4, 2007)
Letter – Public- Private Partnership

Subcommittee on Highways and Transit - Public Private Partnerships: State and User Perspecitives (Thursday, May 24, 2007)
SUMMARY OF SUBJECT MATTER 

Witness Testimonies
Panel 1
The Honorable Edward G. Rendell

Panel 2
The Honorable Alan Lowenthal

The Honorable Terri J. Austin

Panel 3
Mr. Bill Graves

Mr. Todd Spencer

Mr. Greg Cohen

Mr. Michael Replogle

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Full Committee - Climate Change & Energy Independence: Transportation & Infrastructure Issues
(May 16, 2007)
SUMMARY OF SUBJECT MATTER
Video of Chairman's Opening Statement

Opening Statements
Chairman James L. Oberstar

Witness Testimonies
Panel 1
Mr. Jonathan Lash
Mr. William Millar
Mr. Edward Hamberger
Mr. Andy D. Clarke
Mr. Edward Hall
Mr. Tom Rader

Panel 2
Mr. R.K. Stewart FAIA
Mr. William Prindle
The Honorable Jeff Harris
Mr. Chris O'Brien

Panel 3
Mr. Jim May
Mr. Greg Principato
Mr. Michael McQuade
Mr. Richard L. Altman

Panel  4
Dr. Gerald E. Galloway
Mr. Brian Richter
Mr. Alf W. Brandt
Mr. Steve Fitzgerald
Ms. Linda Strout

Government Accountability Office
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION - Strategies Are Available for Making Existing Road Infrastructure Perform Better (July 2007)

Department of Transportation
National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on America’s Transportation Network (March 2007)

Tool for Rush-hour User Charge Evaluation (TRUCE)

Federal Highway Administration
Congestion Pricing: A Primer

Case Studies Transportation Public-Private Partnerships in United States: Final Report Work Order 05-002 (July 7, 2007)

Current Toll Road Activity in the U.S.: A Survey and Analysis (August 2006)

Department of Transportation - Intelligent Transportation Systems
London congestion pricing annual O&M costs are estimated at £92 million (January 2006) 06/29/2007

Nongovernment Organizations

American Roads & Transportation Builders Association
The Nation’s Highway and Transit Investment Needs through 2015 An Analysis of the U.S. DOT 2006 Report on Conditions and Performance of the Nation’s Highways, Bridges and Mass Transit Systems -- In Preparation for SAFETEA-LU  Reauthorization Prepared by William R. Buechner, Ph.D. Vice President, Economics and Research (April 2, 2007)

California Center for Innovative Transportation at the University of California at Berkeley and Caltrans
Congestion Pricing 

Environmental Defense
Congestion Pricing (April 19, 2007)
All Choked Up: Heavy Traffic, Dirty Air and the Risk to New Yorkers (March 2007) | Appendix

New York City
Congestion Pricing traffic reduction plan
Report

Resources for the Future
"Long-Term Consequences of Congestion Pricing: A Small Cordon in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Bush." (October 2006)

Transport Policy 14 (2007) 111–123
The political calculus of congestion pricing David King, Michael Manville, Donald Shoup Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656, USA (9 January 2007)   

Victoria Transport Policy Institute
London Congestion Pricing Implications for Other Cities by
Todd Litman Victoria Transport Policy Institute (10 January 2006)

University of Southern California
The U.S. Context for Highway Congestion Pricing
Bumsoo Lee and Peter Gordon
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626
September 2006