A PARETO OPTIMUM CONGESTION REDUCTION SCHEME

This article shows that certain congestion reduction schemes have the potential for not penalizing anyone. The traditional social welfare approach is modified to address the distribution of gains and losses across the population. As a first step in this line of research, the author considers a transportation system where congestion delay is simply given by a function of its user flow. The author shows that a particular pricing scheme with variable tolls, that can be viewed as hybrid between rationing and pricing, can benefit everyone (unlike pure pricing alone) even if the collected revenues are not returned to the population. The simple conditions under which this is possible are identified. Few data are needed to choose a beneficial policy. Examples are given.

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• Authors:
  • Daganzo, C F
• Publication Date: 1995-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 139-154
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
  • Volume: 29
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0191-2615
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01912615

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Optimization; Pricing; Rationing; Tolls; Traffic congestion
• Uncontrolled Terms: Optimum; Reduction (Decrease)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00676969
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 24 1995 12:00AM