Working Paper
Transforming payment choices by doubling fees on the Illinois tollway
Porter, Richard D.; Amromin, Gene; Jankowski, Carrie (2006)
Rising traffic congestion and the need to improve operational efficiency prompted the Illinois Tollway Authority to unveil plans to reconfigure its road network for ?stop-free? electronic toll collection. Committing to an extensive construction program would have required the Tollway to ensure that enough drivers had electronic payment devices (branded as I- PASS). Conversely, without reconfigured toll gates the drivers would have had less reason to own an I-PASS. To resolve this potentially thorny chicken-and-egg problem, the Tollway put in place a new I-PASS distribution network and then ...
Working Paper Series , Paper WP-06-16

Journal Article
Transforming payment choices by doubling fees on the Illinois Tollway
Porter, Richard D.; Amromin, Gene; Jankowski, Carrie (2007-04)
Using data from the Illinois Tollway, the authors study the effectiveness of a particular application of pricing incentives, in conjunction with a mass-marketing campaign, to foster adoption of electronic toll collection. Dissecting the consumer response by income level, the authors reveal interesting heterogeneity of consumer payment choice in this environment.
Economic Perspectives , Volume 31 , Issue Q II