The Pros and Cons of the Intelligent Transportation System Implementation at Toll Plazas in Russia

Sergey Plaksin (), Alexander Kondrashov (), Elizaveta Yastrebova (), Ekaterina Reshetova () and Nikita Krupenskiy ()
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Sergey Plaksin: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Alexander Kondrashov: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Elizaveta Yastrebova: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Ekaterina Reshetova: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Nikita Krupenskiy: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: The implementation of Intelligent Transportation System elements into the toll plaza system is an actual topic nowadays and its positive effect is the subject of wide speculations. It is considered that the toll plaza Intelligent Transportation System can play a significant role in construction and operating costs reduction and improve the traffic safety. Also, the implementation of the Intelligent Transportation System elements provides the CO2 emissions reduction and increases the level of toll road user satisfaction. However, the usage of these elements at toll plazas has some disadvantages. While the usage of the old-school (manual) toll collection technology provides 100% toll collection rate, the implementation of the Intelligent Transportation System elements at toll roads entails toll payment deficiency. Discussion as whether to use the old technology or to implement the Intelligent Transportation System elements is the right way to operate toll roads and toll plazas forms a point of departure for this paper. This article focuses on the economic, social and environmental effects of the implementation of the Intelligent Transportation System elements at toll roads. Almost all kinds of positive and negative effects of the Intelligent Transportation System elements implementation are evaluated in money terms and made on the basis of author’s calculations and sociological researches data

Keywords: toll road; Intelligent transportation system; toll collection; Russia; environmental effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2015
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, December 2015, pages 1-20

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