Expanding the Potential of Tolling: A
21st Century Look
AASHTO
November 18, 2012
Brian Peters
Florida DOT, Assistant Secretary of Finance and
Administration
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Florida Tolling History

1950’s rural
long distance

Cash only
System

Novelty to
most drivers
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Florida Tolling History

2002 Florida Turnpike Enterprise Created

2008 open
road
tolling

2012 toll
within a
tolled
facility
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Florida Tolled Facilities
GARCON POINT
BRIDGE
MID-BAY BRIDGE
WESTERN BELTWAY, PART C
SEMINOLE EXPRESSWAY
SUNCOAST PARKWAY
460 miles
139 miles
7 miles
606 miles
BEACHLINE EAST EXPRESSWAY
VETERANS EXPRESSWAY
BEACHLINE WEST EXPRESSWAY
PINELLAS BAYWAY SYSTEM
TURNPIKE MAINLINE
SUNSHINE SKYWAY BRIDGE
Florida’s Turnpike System
POLK PARKWAY
Other FDOT Owned
Other FDOT Operated
SAWGRASS
EXPRESSWAY
SOUTHERN CONNECTOR EXTENSION
I 95 Express
ALLIGATOR ALLEY
HOMESTEAD
EXTENSION
OF FLORIDA’S4
TURNPIKE
Toll Revenues
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SUNPASS TRANSPONDERS
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Value Pricing Pilot Program History

September 2000 Study Value Pricing on the Homestead
Extension of Florida’s Turnpike (HEFT)

September 2002 Value Pricing and open road tolling
Sawgrass Expressway

September 2003 Value Pricing study on I-95 from I-395
to Golden Glades Interchange

June 2006 I-75 Express Lanes study
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Value Pricing Pilot Program History

November 2007 Implementation of I-95 Express

September 2010 Comprehensive Plan for Express Lane
Network in Miami-Dade and Broward counties

January 2011 cost benefits of Bus Toll Lanes

October 2012 Integrated Congestion Pricing Plan (ICPP)
on Turnpike System
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Value Pricing Pilot Project
95 Express
Relieve Congestion on I-95 in Miami-Dade County during peak periods
of demand:

Phase 1 complete January 2010

Phase 2 underway (Broward County)

Congestion Priced Tolling

Mobility Choices

Improved Trip Reliability
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Florida Transportation Vision for 21st
Century

Advances projects

Creates private sector jobs

Offers transportation choices

Freight/Ports/Aviation/Spaceport
investments

Tolling strategies
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Authority to Toll

MAP 21
 Tolling prohibition on I-4 eliminated
 Authority to toll within Federal parameters
 New capacity on interstate facility

Florida Statute 338.151
 New limited access facilities
 Additional lanes on state highway system
 New or replacement bridges over waterways
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First Coast Outer Beltway
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I-295 Express Lanes
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Express Lane- Future Tolling
NORTHEAST REGION
95
295 Jacksonville Area
CENTRAL REGION
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Orlando Area
4
Tampa Bay Area
275
75
SOUTHEAST REGION
95
Broward &
Palm Beach Counties
75
Broward &
Miami-Dade Counties
Palmetto Expressway in
Miami-Dade County
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Two Tier Tolling

Two Tier Toll System

Veteran’s
Expressway 10 miles

Homestead
Extension of Florida’s
Turnpike (HEFT) 11
miles
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I-4 Express Lanes

I-4 Ultimate

Looking at
Concessionaire
agreement

20 miles through
downtown Orlando
$2 Billion
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Financing

Financing Alternatives to get more projects through the
production pipeline

GAS TAX is not sustainable. We must diversity our
sources of revenue

Tolling a policy that all new capacity on interstates and
expressways shall be tolled where feasible or at the very
least tolls should complement traditional funding in
delivering improvements and new capacity
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Transportation Transformation Group
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Florida’s Future

Continue to move
toward 100%
transponder
(SUNPASS) use

Back room
consolidation

Interoperability
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A Few Observations Toward the Future

States collectively spend about $10 billion in federal
funds each year on the Interstate System

The current annual shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund is
about $10 billion

A toll of about 2¢ per mile for cars and 4¢ per mile for
trucks for travel on the Interstate System would generate
about $16 billion annually

The toll from Jacksonville, FL to Pittsburg, PA would be
about $16 for cars and $32 for trucks – a trip to Seattle,
WA would be about $60 for cars and $120 for trucks

So . . . should the future preservation and capacity needs
of the Interstate System be funded through tolls?
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QUESTIONS?
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