Toll Road Planning

With an ever increasing need for road infrastructure, Governments are being forced to turn to the private sector to provide infrastructure funding. To date this has involved the imposition of road development contributions (see section 3.3) and in the private sector, building and operating toll roads.

The process of planning and operating toll systems in road networks often involves a large number of considerations, ranging from travellers' responses to the level of tolls to debt management.

Two primary items of information required are:

• estimates of the optimum tolls for selected traveler segments, and
• estimates of the impacts of particular tolls on travel in adjacent road systems.

VLC has developed analytical techniques which provide these estimates and applied them in the planning of road toll systems in networks varying from low to high levels of congestion.

Interfaces with low-cost graphics facilities enables the generation of reports in forms suitable for decision-making.