Project Task Areas

4. Innovative Traffic Management Systems

The fourth task area deals with the development of innovative systems to manage urban and rural traffic flows and patterns. The new systems will make use of the above-described comprehensive Mobility Database and Dynamic Mobility Model. The current rural management systems will be adapted to new inputs from the Dynamic Mobility Model; and, urban systems will be optimized for individual regions, cities, and high volume corridors, so that traffic flows as smoothly as possibly, making optimal use of network capacity to prevent breakdown-type situations.

5. New Models for Financing Transportation Infrastructure

This task area will investigate new models for financing the cost of transportation infrastructure using standard instruments. The basic premise is that users should pay the full cost for the transportation infrastructure they are using, and not somebody else. Different users naturally burden the infrastructure in different ways, some of which are currently being paid for by the society at large. New models of financing will be based on analyzing cost structures and the behavior of groups of transportation infrastructure users. A pilot project will test usage-based tolls for cars on major arteries of the Czech Republic.