Congestion Pricing for Multi-Modal Transportation Systems

In this paper, the authors extend the toll pricing framework previously developed for vehicular traffic networks to ones with the potential to include many modes of transportation such as walking, driving, and using public conveyance (e.g., buses, subways, and trains). To determine tolls, the authors construct a user equilibrium and system optimal model. In both models, they assume that users adopt strategies or hyperpaths to travel between each origin-destination pair and the demand between each pair is fixed. However, the choice between driving and using public transportation is determined by a binomial logit function. As in the case of vehicular traffic networks, the set of valid tolls can be obtained from the solution to the system problem and the equilibrium conditions for the user problem. Then, secondary objective functions similar to those for traffic networks can be used to select a toll vector for, e.g., implementation. The authors provide a numerical example to illustrate their approach.

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  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V99-4KCRS5R-1/2/802328786a2d588783a8ef811c1c5680
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier
• Authors:
  • Hamdouch, Younes
  • Florian, Michael A
  • Hearn, Donald W
  • Lawphongpanich, Siriphong
• Publication Date: 2007-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 275-291
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
  • Volume: 41B
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0191-2615
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01912615

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Binomial distributions; Congestion pricing; Driving; Highway traffic control; Logits; Mathematical models; Mode choice; Multimodal transportation; Numerical analysis; Origin and destination; Public transit; Strategic planning; Tolls; Traffic equilibrium; Travelers; User charges; Walking
• Uncontrolled Terms: Hyperpaths
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01045284
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 30 2007 7:03AM