Investigating the impact of highway electronic toll collection to the external cost: A case study in Taiwan

Po Hsing Tseng; Dung Ying Lin; Steven Chien

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2013.10.019

Investigating the impact of highway electronic toll collection to the external cost: A case study in Taiwan

Po Hsing Tseng, Dung Ying Lin, Steven Chien

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Abstract

The implementation of electronic toll collection (ETC) on highways aims to reduce toll transaction time and thereby increase service capacity. In this paper, considering the separation of manual toll collection (MTC) and ETC lanes, a method is developed to estimate the carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, transaction time, and the associated external cost incurred by vehicular traffic at four toll plazas on a northern-central highway in Taiwan. Three vehicle types are considered: passenger cars, buses and trucks. Results show that the CO₂ emissions were reduced by 12.4% as the number of ETC lanes for all 4 toll plazas increased. The reduction of external costs fell by 60.1% in terms of value of transaction time, which will arguably lead highway authorities to actively promote ETC.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	265-272
Number of pages	8
Journal	Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Volume	86
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.10.019
State	Published - Jul 2014

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Business and International Management
Applied Psychology
Management of Technology and Innovation

Keywords

Carbon dioxide
Electronic toll collection
Emissions
External cost
Highway

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