TRB Congestion Pricing Committee (ABE25) members: In preparation for our committee meeting phone conference this *Thursday, May 2, at 2:30 pm Eastern time (**Call in number 1-877-829-8910 Code 5973967#)*, please review the following call for papers ideas collected by Ken Buckeye. After our meeting Thursday, Ken will draft and submit the call for papers. Also attached is a proposed call for papers on behavioral and experimental economics developed by Karen White, which we would submit jointly with the TRB Transportation Economics (ABE20) committee. The agenda for May 2 phone conference will be: 1. Proposed call for papers for 2014 TRB Annual Meeting - Ken Buckeye 2. Proposed workshops for 2014 TRB Annual Meeting - John Doan 3. ABE25 Summer meeting in conjunction with Seattle congestion pricing conference (July 9-11, 2013)- David Ungemah Lee ******************************************************************************* Combined Congestion Pricing and Managed Lanes call for papers (priority order): **** ***1. ****The impact of congestion pricing on highway performance *(Jack Wells)** **2. ***Making the connection: The tie between tolling and congestion pricing for renovation of existing facilities and development of new facilities *(Tom Higgins)* * **** **3. ***Identifying viable pricing methodologies and pricing information channels for multiple, interconnected priced managed lanes.* (David Ungemah)**** **4. ***The* *interrelationships of priced managed lanes and programs to promote use of alternative modes *(Don Samdahl and Jesse Glaser)**** **5. ***Conflicting Objectives of Lane-Pricing *(Jesse Glaser)**** ** Workshop idea: **1. ***Focus on the nation’s newest congested pricing facilities: Washington, D.C. and Dallas** *(Matt MacGregor and Ken Buckeye)**** ** Poster session: **1. ***Priced facilities: Where have they come over the past two decades and where they are going *(Matt MacGregor) -- Lee W. Munnich, Jr. Senior Fellow and Director State and Local Policy Program Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs University of Minnesota 295H Humphrey Center 301-19th Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 625-7357 [log in to unmask]