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Modelling ‘may overestimate impact of tolls’

07 December 2012
 

Drivers may be more willing to using toll roads than transport models predict, Atkins believes.

In a section of the A14 study report, the consultant discusses modelling that it undertook for an area that included the M6 Toll road in the West Midlands. Atkins says it had to halve the actual toll in order to replicate the observed behaviour of motorists.

The consultant suggests three possible explanations for the disparity between modelled and observed behaviour:

toll road users tend...

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