Cost allocation by uniform traffic removal-- Theoretical discussion and example highway cost applications

Chris Hendrickson and Anthony Kane

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 1983, vol. 17, issue 4, 265-274

Abstract: We propose four properties for equitable roadway cost allocations: (a) allocated costs should be based on full cost recovery, (b) allocated costs must be non-negative for any traveler group, (c) cost allocations should be additive, and (d) cost allocations should be consistent where equivalency factors among traffic categories exist. For cases with well-behaved cost functions, the uniform traffic removal technique discussed here uniquely satisfies these four properties and should be used whenever the four allocation properties are desired. Example applications as well as cases in which cost functions are not well behaved are discussed.

Date: 1983
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