Departure Time Choice Equilibrium and Tolling Strategies for a Bottleneck with Stochastic Capacity
This paper develops a bottleneck model in which the capacity of the bottleneck is assumed to be stochastic and follow a general distribution that has a positive upper bound. The user equilibrium principle in terms of mean trip cost is adopted to formulate commuters’ departure time choice in the stochastic bottleneck. The authors find that there exist five possible equilibrium departure patterns, which depend on both commuters’ unit costs of travel time, schedule delay early and late, and the uncertainty of the stochastic capacity of the bottleneck. All possible equilibrium departure patterns are analytically derived. Both the analytical and numerical results show that increasing the uncertainty of the capacity of the bottleneck leads to an increase of commuters’ individual mean trip cost. In addition, both a time-varying toll scheme and a single-step coarse toll scheme are designed within the proposed stochastic bottleneck model. The authors provide an analytical method to determine the detailed toll-charging schemes for both toll strategies. The numerical results show that the proposed toll schemes can indeed improve the efficiency of the stochastic bottleneck in terms of decreasing mean total social cost, and the time-varying toll scheme is more efficient than the single-step coarse toll scheme. However, as the uncertainty of the capacity of the bottleneck increases, the efficiency of the time-varying toll scheme decreases, whereas the efficiency of the single-step coarse toll scheme fluctuates slightly.
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- Abstracts reprinted with permission of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, http://www.informs.org).
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Authors:
- Long, Jiancheng
- Yang, Hai
- Szeto, W Y
- Publication Date: 2022-2
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 79-102
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Serial:
- Transportation Science
- Volume: 56
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- ISSN: 0041-1655
- Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bottlenecks; Commuters; Departure time; Highway capacity; Stochastic processes; Tolls; Traffic models
- Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01835806
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 10 2022 5:05PM