The ever growing demands for the use of transportation infrastructure and its maintenance and repairs at an acceptable level of service are... Show moreThe ever growing demands for the use of transportation infrastructure and its maintenance and repairs at an acceptable level of service are the prime concern for transportation agencies today. The available financial resources can never be sufficient to match the exorbitantly high requirements for construction, maintenance and rehabilitation of transportation systems. With the advent of the technological revolution, the intelligence transfer amongst various engineering fields has made it possible to reduce transportation costs. However, the slow growing budget caused by economic recession and revenue decrease over time puts transportation agencies under enormous pressure to effectively restore the deteriorated transportation facility and system operation conditions under the budget constraint. The proposed research aims to utilize the concept of roadway pricing coupled with a holistic framework of asset management to support performance-based management of transportation systems and help transportation agencies achieve the future vision of the nation's strategic planning requirements to enable sustainable management of the system. A computational study for the City of Chicago’s central district is conducted by using the proposed roadway pricing framework. The proposed roadway pricing framework can be utilized for urban as well as rural regions, by public as well as private agencies, to manage the system in a sustainable manner, by means of fair pricing to the users of the system, for their facility condition and usage impacts. Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, May 2015 Show less
