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A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road (almost always a controlled-access highway in the present day) for which a fee (or toll) is assessed for passage. It is a size of road pricing typically implemented to tướng help recoup the costs of road construction and maintenance.

Toll roads have existed in some size since antiquity, with tolls levied on passing travelers on foot, wagon, or horseback; a practice that continued with the automobile, and many modern tollways charge fees for motor vehicles exclusively. The amount of the toll usually varies by vehicle type, weight, or number of axles, with freight trucks often charged higher rates phàn nàn cars.

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Tolls are often collected at toll plazas, toll booths, toll houses, toll stations, toll bars, toll barriers, or toll gates. Some toll collection points are automatic, and the user deposits money in a machine which opens the gate once the correct toll has been paid. To cut costs and minimise time delay, many tolls are collected with electronic toll collection equipment which automatically communicates with a toll payer's transponder or uses automatic number-plate recognition to tướng charge drivers by debiting their accounts.

Criticisms of toll roads include the time taken to tướng stop and pay the toll, and the cost of the toll booth operators—up to tướng about one-third of revenue in some cases. Automated toll-paying systems help minimise both of these. Others object to tướng paying "twice" for the same road: in fuel taxes and in tolls.

In addition to tướng toll roads, toll bridges and toll tunnels are also used by public authorities to tướng generate funds to tướng repay the cost of building the structures. Some tolls are mix aside to tướng pay for future maintenance or enhancement of infrastructure, or are applied as a general fund by local governments, not being earmarked for transport facilities. This is sometimes limited or prohibited by (; central government legislation. Also, road congestion pricing schemes have been implemented in a limited number of urban areas as a transportation demand management tool to tướng try to tướng reduce traffic congestion and air pollution.^[1]

History[edit]

Ancient times[edit]

Toll roads have existed for at least the last 2,700 years, as tolls had to tướng be paid by travellers using the Susa–Babylon highway under the regime of Ashurbanipal, who reigned in the seventh century BC.^[2]

Aristotle and Pliny refer to tướng tolls in Arabia and other parts of Asia. In India, before the fourth century BC, the Arthashastra notes the use of tolls. Germanic tribes charged tolls to tướng travellers across mountain passes.

Middle Ages[edit]

Most roads were not freely open to tướng travel on in Europe during the Middle Ages,^[3] and the toll was one of many feudal fees paid for rights of usage in everyday life. Some major European "highways", such as the Via Regia and Via Imperii, offered protection to tướng travelers in exchange for paying the royal toll.

Many modern European roads were originally constructed as toll roads in order to tướng recoup the costs of construction and maintenance, and to tướng generate revenue from passing travelers. In 14th-century England, some of the most heavily used roads were repaired with money raised from tolls by pavage grants. Widespread toll roads sometimes restricted traffic so sánh much, by their high tolls, that they interfered with trade and cheap transportation needed to tướng alleviate local famines or shortages.^[4]

Tolls were used in the Holy Roman Empire in the 14th and 15th centuries.

17th-century Dahomey[edit]

After significant road construction undertaken by the West African kingdom of Dahomey, toll booths were also established with the function of collecting yearly taxes based on the goods carried by the people of Dahomey and their occupation. In some cases, officials imposed fines for public nuisance before allowing people to tướng pass.^[5]

19th century[edit]

Industrialisation in Europe needed major improvements to tướng the transport infrastructure which included many new or substantially improved roads, financed from tolls. The A5 road in Britain was built to tướng provide a robust transport links between Britain and Ireland and had a toll house every few miles.

20th century[edit]

In the 20th century, road tolls were introduced in Europe to tướng finance the construction of motorway networks and specific transport infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels. Italy was the first European country to tướng charge motorway tolls, on a 50 kilometres (31 mi) motorway section near Milan in 1924. It was followed by Greece, which made users pay for the network of motorways around and between its cities in 1927. Later in the 1950s and 1960s, France, Spain, and Portugal started to tướng build motorways largely with the aid of concessions, allowing rapid development of this infrastructure without massive state debts. Since then, road tolls have been introduced in the majority of the EU thành viên states.^[6]

In the United States, prior to tướng the introduction of the Interstate Highway System and the large federal grants supplied to tướng states to tướng build it, many states constructed their first controlled-access highways by floating bonds backed by toll revenues. Starting with the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1940, and followed by similar roads in New Jersey (New Jersey Turnpike, 1952 and Garden State Parkway, 1954), Thành Phố New York (New York State Thruway, 1954), Massachusetts (Massachusetts Turnpike, 1957), Illinois (Illinois Tollway, 1958), and others, numerous states throughout the 1950s established major toll roads. With the establishment of the Interstate Highway System in the late 1950s, toll road construction in the U.S. slowed down considerably, as the federal government now provided the bulk of funding to tướng construct new freeways, and regulations required that such Interstate highways be không tính tiền from tolls. Many older toll roads were added to tướng the Interstate System under a grandfather clause that allowed tolls to tướng continue to tướng be collected on toll roads that predated the system. Some of these such as the Connecticut Turnpike and the Richmond–Petersburg Turnpike later removed their tolls when the initial bonds were paid off. Many states, however, have maintained the tolling of these roads as a consistent source of revenue.

As the Interstate Highway System approached completion during the 1980s, states began constructing toll roads again to tướng provide new controlled-access highways which were not part of the original interstate system funding. Houston's outer beltway of interconnected toll roads began in 1983, and many states followed over the last two decades of the 20th century adding new toll roads, including the tollway system around Orlando, Florida, Colorado's E-470, and Georgia State Route 400.

21st century[edit]

London, in an effort to tướng reduce traffic within the đô thị, instituted the London congestion charge in 2003, effectively making all roads within the centre of the đô thị tolled.

In the United States, as states looked for ways to tướng construct new freeways without federal funding again, to tướng raise revenue for continued road maintenance, and to tướng control congestion, new toll road construction saw significant increases during the first two decades of the 21st century. Spurred on by two innovations, the electronic toll collection system, and the advent of high-occupancy and express lane tolls, many areas of the U.S saw large road building projects in major urban areas. Electronic toll collection, first introduced in the 1980s, reduces operating costs by removing toll collectors from roads. Tolled express lanes, by which certain lanes of a freeway are designated "toll only", increases revenue by allowing a free-to-use highway to tướng collect revenue by allowing drivers to tướng bypass traffic jams by paying a toll.

The E-ZPass system, compatible with many state systems, is the largest ETC system in the U.S., and is used for both fully tolled highways and tolled express lanes. Maryland Route 200 and the Triangle Expressway in North Carolina were the first toll roads built without toll booths, with drivers charged via ETC or by optical license plate recognition and are billed by mail. In addition, many older toll roads are also being upgraded to tướng an all-electronic tolling system, abandoning the hybrid systems they adopted during the late 20th century. These include the Massachusetts Turnpike, one of the oldest American toll roads, which went all-electronic in năm 2016, and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, America's oldest toll freeway, which went all-electronic in 2020, along with the Illinois Tollway, which both accelerated their transitions to tướng such due to tướng the COVID-19 pandemic.

United Kingdom turnpikes[edit]

Turnpike trusts were established in England and Wales from about 1706 in response to tướng the need for better roads phàn nàn the few and poorly-maintained tracks then available. Turnpike trusts were mix up by individual Acts of Parliament, with powers to tướng collect road tolls to tướng repay loans for building, improving, and maintaining the principal roads in Britain. At their peak, in the 1830s, over 1,000 trusts^[7] administered around 30,000 miles (48,000 km) of turnpike road in England and Wales, taking tolls at almost 8,000 toll-gates.^[8]

The trusts were ultimately responsible for the maintenance and improvement of most of the main roads in England and Wales, which were used to tướng distribute agricultural and industrial goods economically. The tolls were a source of revenue for road building and maintenance, paid for by road users and not from general taxation. The turnpike trusts were gradually abolished from the 1870s. Most trusts improved existing roads, but some new roads, usually only short stretches, were also built. Thomas Telford's Holyhead road followed Watling Street from London but was exceptional in creating a largely new route beyond Shrewsbury, and especially beyond Llangollen. Built in the early 19th century, with many toll booths along its length, most of it is now the A5. In the modern day, one major toll road is the M6 Toll, relieving traffic congestion on the M6 in Birmingham. A few notable bridges and tunnels continue as toll roads including the Dartford Crossing and Mersey Gateway bridge.^{[citation needed]}

Toll roads elsewhere[edit]

Some cities in Canada had toll roads in the 19th century. Roads radiating from Toronto required users to tướng pay at toll gates along the street (Yonge Street, Bloor Street, Davenport Road, Kingston Road)^[9] and disappeared after 1895.^[10]

19th-century plank roads were usually operated as toll roads. One of the first U.S. motor roads, the Long Island Motor Parkway (which opened on October 10, 1908) was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The road was closed in 1938 when it was taken over by the state of Thành Phố New York in lieu of back taxes.^[11][12]

Toll roads in Russia[edit]

The first toll road in St. Petersburg appeared in the 2000s. The Western High-Speed Diameter (WHSD) is a multilane motorway running from the South to tướng the North. The road connects the southwest of the đô thị, including the Sea Port area, with the Ring Road, Vasilievsky Island, Kurortny district and the Scandinavia motorway. The WHSD is divided into three sections: Southern, Central and Northern. The entire stretch of the WHSD was opened for traffic in năm 2016.

There are 16 toll plazas on the WHSD. Paying toll by transponder is mostly recommended for frequent drivers. The Flow+ toll collection system was implemented on the WHSD. The system was designed for automatic calculation of the driving distance of a vehicle equipped with a transponder. The system does not require constructing toll plazas at each entrance to tướng or exit from the highway. Transponders mounted on vehicles are read by signal receivers installed at the entrance and exit ramps.

Charging methods[edit]

Road tolls were levied traditionally for a specific access (e.g. city) or for a specific infrastructure (e.g. roads, bridges). These concepts were widely used until the last century. However, the evolution in technology made it possible to tướng implement road tolling policies based on different concepts. The different charging concepts are designed to tướng suit different requirements regarding purpose of the charge, charging policy, the network to tướng the charge, tariff class differentiation, et cetera:^[13]

• Time-based charges and access fees: In a time-based charging regime, a road user has to tướng pay for a given period of time in which they may use the associated infrastructure. For the practically identical access fees, the user pays for the access to tướng a restricted zone for a period or several days.
• Motorway and other infrastructure tolling: The term tolling is used for charging a well-defined special and comparatively costly infrastructure, lượt thích a bridge, a tunnel, a mountain pass, a motorway concession, or the whole motorway network of a country. Classically a toll is due when a vehicle passes a tolling station, be it a manual barrier-controlled toll plaza or a free-flow multi-lane station.
• Distance or area charging: In a distance or area charging system concept, vehicles are charged per total distance driven in a defined area.

Some toll roads charge a toll in only one direction. Examples include the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Harbour Tunnel, and Eastern Distributor (these all charge tolls city-bound) in nước Australia, in the United States, crossings between Pennsylvania and New Jersey operated by Delaware River Port Authority and crossings between New Jersey and Thành Phố New York operated by Port Authority of Thành Phố New York and New Jersey. This technique is practical where the detour to tướng avoid the toll is large or the toll differences are small.

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Collection methods[edit]

Traditionally, tolls were paid by hand at a toll gate. Although payments may still be made in cash, it is more common now to tướng pay using an electronic toll collection system. In some places, payment is made using transponders which are affixed to tướng the windscreen.

Three systems of toll roads exist: open (with mainline barrier toll plazas); closed (with entry/exit tolls); and open road (no toll booths, only electronic toll collection gantries at entrances and exits or at strategic locations on the median of the road). Some toll roads use a combination of the three systems.

On an open toll system, all vehicles stop at various locations along the highway to tướng pay a toll. (This is different from "open road tolling", where no vehicles stop to tướng pay a toll.) While this may save money from the lack of need to tướng construct toll booths at every exit, it can cause traffic congestion while traffic queues at the mainline toll plazas (toll barriers). It is also possible for motorists to tướng enter an 'open toll road' after one toll barrier and exit before the next one, thus travelling on the toll road toll-free. Most open toll roads have ramp tolls or partial access junctions to tướng prevent this practice, known in the U.S. as "shunpiking".

With a closed toll system, vehicles collect a ticket when entering the highway. In some cases, the ticket displays the toll to tướng be paid on exit. Upon exit, the driver must pay the amount listed for the given exit. Should the ticket be lost, a driver must typically pay the maximum amount possible for travel on that highway. Short toll roads with no intermediate entries or exits may have only one toll plaza at one over, with motorists travelling in either direction paying a flat fee either when they enter or when they exit the toll road. In a variant of the closed toll system, mainline barriers are present at the two endpoints of the toll road, and each interchange has a ramp toll that is paid upon exit or entry. In this case, a motorist pays a flat fee at the ramp toll and another flat fee at the over of the toll road; no ticket is necessary. In addition, with most systems, motorists may pay tolls only with cash or change; debit and credit cards are not accepted. However, some toll roads may have travel plazas with ATMs so sánh motorists can stop and withdraw cash for the tolls.

The toll is calculated by the distance travelled on the toll road or the specific exit chosen. In the United States, for instance, the Kansas Turnpike, Ohio Turnpike, New Jersey Turnpike, most of the Indiana Toll Road, Thành Phố New York State Thruway, and Florida's Turnpike currently implement closed systems.

The Union Toll Plaza on the Garden State Parkway was the first ever to tướng use an automated toll collection machine. A plaque commemorating the sự kiện includes the first quarter collected at its toll booths.^[14]

The first major deployment of an RFID electronic toll collection system in the United States was on the Dallas North Tollway in 1989 by Amtech (see TollTag). The Amtech RFID technology used on the Dallas North Tollway was originally developed at Sandia Labs for use in tagging and tracking livestock. In the same year, the Telepass active transponder RFID system was introduced across Italy. Several US states now use mobile tolling platforms to tướng facilitate use of payment via smartphones.

Highway 407 in the province of Ontario, Canada, has no toll booths, and instead reads a transponder mounted on the windshields of each vehicle using the road (the rear licence plates of vehicles lacking a transponder are photographed when they enter and exit the highway). This made the highway the first all-automated toll highway in the world. A bill is mailed monthly for usage of the 407. Lower charges are levied on frequent 407 users who carry electronic transponders in their vehicles. The approach has not been without controversy: In 2003 the 407 ETR settled^[15] a class action with a refund to tướng users.

Throughout most of the East Coast of the United States, E-ZPass (operated under the brand I-Pass in Illinois) is accepted on almost all toll roads. Similar systems include SunPass in Florida, FasTrak in California, Good to tướng Go in Washington state, and ExpressToll in Colorado. The systems use a small radio transponder mounted in or on a customer's vehicle to tướng deduct toll fares from a pre-paid trương mục as the vehicle passes through the toll barrier. This reduces manpower at toll booths and increases traffic flow and fuel efficiency by reducing the need for complete stops to tướng pay tolls at these locations.

By designing a toll gate specifically for electronic collection, it is possible to tướng carry out open-road tolling, where the customer does not need to tướng slow at all when passing through the toll gate. The U.S. state of Texas is using a system that has no toll booths. Drivers without a TollTag have their license plate photographed automatically and the registered owner will receive a monthly bill, at a higher rate phàn nàn those vehicles with TollTags. A similar variation of automatic collection is the Toll Roads in Orange County, CA, US, wherein all entry or collection points are equipped with high-speed cameras which read license plates and users will have 7 calendar days to tướng pay online using their plate number or else mix up an trương mục for automatic debits.

The first all-electronic toll road in the northeastern United States, the InterCounty Connector (Maryland Route 200) was partially opened to tướng traffic in February 2011,^[16] and the final segment was completed in November năm trước.^[17] The first section of another all-electronic toll road, the Triangle Expressway, opened at the beginning of 2012 in North Carolina.^[18]

Financing and management[edit]

Some toll roads are managed under such systems as the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) system. Private companies build the roads and are given a limited franchise. Ownership is transferred to tướng the government when the franchise expires. This type of arrangement is prevalent in nước Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, South Korea, nhật bản, and the Philippines. The BOT system is a fairly new concept that is gaining ground^{[colloquialism]} in the United States, with California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi,^[19] Texas, and Virginia already building and operating toll roads under this scheme. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Tennessee are also considering the BOT methodology for future highway projects.

The more traditional means of managing toll roads in the United States is through semi-autonomous public authorities. Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Thành Phố New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia manage their toll roads in this manner. While most of the toll roads in California, Delaware, Florida, Texas, and Virginia are operating under the BOT arrangement, a few of the older toll roads in these states are still operated by public authorities.

In France, some toll roads are operated by private or public companies, with specific taxes collected by the state.^{[citation needed]}

Arguments against toll roads[edit]

Toll roads have been criticised^{[by whom?]} as being inefficient^{[clarification needed]} in various ways:^[20]

1. They require vehicles to tướng stop or slow down (except open road tolling); manual toll collection wastes time and raises vehicle operating costs.^{[citation needed]}
2. Collection costs can reduce revenue by up to tướng a third, and revenue theft is considered^{[by whom?]} to tướng be comparatively easy.^{[citation needed]}
3. Where the tolled roads are less congested phàn nàn the parallel "free" roads, the traffic diversion resulting from the tolls increases congestion on the road system and reduces its usefulness.^{[citation needed]}
4. There are concerns about government surveillance associated with both electronic tolls and some forms of "classical" toll collection

A number of additional criticisms are also directed at toll roads in general:

1. Toll roads are a size of regressive taxation; that is, compared to tướng conventional taxes for funding roads, they benefit wealthier citizens more phàn nàn poor citizens.^[21][22]
2. If toll roads are owned or managed by private for profit entities, the citizens may lose money overall compared to tướng conventional public funding because the private owners or operators of the toll system will naturally seek to tướng profit from the roads.^[23]
3. The managing entities, whether public or private, may not correctly trương mục for the overall social costs, particularly to tướng the poor, when setting pricing and thus may hurt the neediest segments of society.^[24]

Arguments in favor of toll roads[edit]

• Tolls help internalize some of the externalities of automobiles, that is costs automobile traffic imposes on society that are not borne by users^[25][26]
• Through dynamic pricing trips that vì thế not have to tướng occur at rush hour can be moved to tướng other times of the day or be avoided altogether. This makes more efficient use of existing road capacity.^[27][28]
• As richer people on average own more cars^[29][30][31] and drive more ^[32][33] using public funds especially those derived from regressive taxes lượt thích sales taxes represents wealth redistribution from poor households to tướng rich ones. In the case of toll roads, those who drive more (overwhelmingly richer people) pay more and those who vì thế not drive vì thế not pay for road construction or maintenance

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  Tipo toll plaza in Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway, Hermosa, Bataan, Philippines, before the integration with NLEX.

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  The open road tolling lanes at the West 163rd Street toll plaza, on the Tri-State Tollway near Markham, Illinois, United States

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  In 2018 Rhode Island became one of the first states to tướng setup gantries to tướng exclusively toll only tractor trailer trucks. Gantry shown on I-95 North.

See also[edit]

• List of toll roads
• Automobile costs
• Barrier toll system
• High-occupancy toll lane
• Private highway
• Shadow toll
• Shunpiking, the practice of avoiding turnpikes
• Toll house
• Toll roads around the world
• Turnpike trusts – England and Wales
• Freeway

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Turnpike Info
• Toll Tickets Official Website
• International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) is the worldwide alliance of toll operators and associated industries that provides a diễn đàn for sharing knowledge and ideas to tướng promote and enhance toll-financed transportation services.
• Toll Roads News from contractor perspective
• Turnpike Roads in England and Wales, for background on toll roads during the turnpike era in England