Electronic Toll Collection System and Travel Demand: A Field Experiment of Toll Facilities in New York City

심형석 (Hyoung Suk Shim); Jonathan R. Peters

Electronic Toll Collection System and Travel Demand: A Field Experiment of Toll Facilities in New York City

Journal of Regional Studies and Development
Abbr : JRSD
2011, 20(1), pp.407-438
Publisher : Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development: IPAID
Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Regional Studies in general > Comparative / Statistical Regional Studies

Hyoung Suk Shim ¹, Jonathan R. Peters ²

¹CUNY Graduate Center
²The City University of New York

Candidate

ABSTRACT

We investigate, in this study, the effect of the E-ZPass, Electronic Toll Collection System for the Northeastern United States highway toll plazas, on travel demand as it relates to the use of these toll facilities. We perform a comparison study of travel demand between E-ZPass users as a treatment group and non-users (cash customers) as a control group. For the appropriate comparison study, we use a survey of the users of ten toll facilities in New York City, and design a field experiment based on a travel demand model, as proposed by Peters, Shim and Kress (2011). We then explore the sources of bias inherent in the comparison study. We find that the estimated differences of travel demand between E-ZPass users and non-users are biased due to model misspecification, and sampling selection. After controlling for all possible sources of bias, E-ZPass use is shown to have no statistically significant effect on travel demand.

KEYWORDS

Travel Demand, Electronic Toll Collection System, Field Experiment, Propensity Score Matching

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