Costs of Congestion: Literature Based Review of Methodologies and Analytical Approaches

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GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

AFFORD

Acceptability of fiscal and financial measures and organizational requirements for demand management

ANPR

Automated number plate recognition

ATM

Active traffic management

CBI

Confederation of British industry

CfIT

Commission for integrated transport

CO2

Carbon dioxide

COSMOS

Congestion management Strategies and methods in urban Sites

CRF

Congestion reference flow

CUPID

Co-ordinating urban pricing integrated demonstrations

DESIRE

Designs for interurban road pricing schemes in Europe

DfT

Department for transport

DIFFERENT

User reaction and efficient differentiation of charges and tolls

DRIVE

Community programme ( EEC) in the field of road transport informatics and telecommunications

EU15

Countries in the EU before the accession of the new member states in 2004

FORGE

Fitting on of regional growth and elasticities model

GDP

Gross domestic product

GRACE

Generalisation of research on accounts and cost estimation

HEATCO

Developing harmonised European approaches for transport costing and project assessment

LOS

Level of service

LTS

Local transport strategy

MC- ICAM

Implementation of marginal cost pricing in transport - Integrated conceptual and applied model analysis

MECC

Marginal external cost of congestion

mph

Miles per hour

PETS

Pricing European transport systems

PROGRESS

Pricing regimes for integrated sustainable mobility

QUITS

Design and testing of an integrated methodology for the valuation of the quality of transport and systems and services in Europe

RECONNECT

Reducing cot Transport

RECORDIT

Real cost reduction of door-to-door intermodal Transport

REVENUE

Use of revenues from transport pricing

RR

Reliability ratio

RTP

Regional transport partnerships

RTRA

Road traffic reduction act

SACTRA

Standing advisory committee on trunk road assessment

SATURN

Simulation and assignment of traffic to urban road networks

SHS

Scottish household survey

SPECTRUM

Study of policies regarding economic instruments complementing transport regulation and the undertaking of physical measures

STAG

Scottish transport appraisal guidance

SUMMA

Conditions for sustainable mobility and transport

TCC

Total cost of congestion

TMfS

Transport model for Scotland

TRAM/ DELTA

Traffic restraint analysis model/Development, transition, location, employment and air quality model

TRENEN

Models for the study of transport energy and environment policies

TWMV

Two wheeled motor vehicle

UNITE

Unification of accounts and marginal costs for transport efficiency

Veh-Km

Vehicle kilometre

Vehs

Vehicles

VOR

Value of reliability

VOT

Value of time

VTTS

Value of travel time savings

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