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Published in David M. Levinson, Kevin J. Krizek, Metropolitan Transport and Land Use, 2018
David M. Levinson, Kevin J. Krizek
A variant on the facility-specific toll is the HOT (high-occupancy toll) lane. HOT lanes are lanes designated for use by high-occupancy vehicles that may be used by single-occupant vehicles if a toll is paid. In general, they are parallel to “free” lanes, and so the solo drivers choose to pay the toll in order to avoid congestion occurring on non-HOT lanes. In still another variation on HOT lanes, Box 13.2 considers how planners have used managed lanes to reward what they consider socially desirable behavior.
Make way for the wealthy? Autonomous vehicles, markets in mobility, and social justice
Published in Mobilities, 2020
Astute readers will have already realised that a recent extension of the concept of toll roads and congestion taxes even more clearly raises many of the same issues with which we are concerned here. A number of cities around the world have begun using smart tolling technologies to allow the pricing of access to faster route times on major arterial roads (Altshuler 2010; Weinstein and Sciara 2006; Ye and Chen 2017). These systems reserve the use of particular lanes for drivers who are carrying some minimum number of passengers or have paid a fee in order to avoid congestion elsewhere in the road system (thus HOT for High-Occupancy/Toll lanes): what distinguishes them from traditional toll roads is the ease with which drivers can purchase access rights on a per trip basis. Although the practice is as yet confined to particular arterial roads in each city, where these lanes exist, those who are unwilling or unable to pay to use them are already effectively required to make way for the wealthy (Graham and Marvin 2001; Rutten 2009).