Difference Between Area-Based and Cordon-Based Congestion Pricing: Investigation by Trip-Chain-Based Network Equilibrium Model with Nonadditive Path Costs

Modeling the effects of congestion pricing has become the focus of many researchers, and several have analyzed the cordon-based congestion pricing problem. However, few have attempted to investigate area-based congestion pricing because it is considered difficult to analyze precisely. Cordon-based pricing can be expressed easily in a traffic assignment procedure by the addition of a charge to the inbound links of a cordon area, but the impedance of area-based pricing cannot be expressed with a link-based formulation. The objectives of this study are to propose a sound network model for evaluating area-based pricing and to compare the effects of area-based pricing and cordon-based pricing. First, it is pointed out that an exact treatment of area-based congestion pricing requires consideration of the nonadditive trip-chain–based path cost. Such consideration appears complicated, but a simple trip-chain–based network equilibrium model with nonadditive path cost is formulated here, and a convex minimization problem that is equivalent to the model is presented. This formulation enables the evaluation of the effect of area-based congestion charging more exactly than the traditional trip-based model, even for a large network. Finally, the model is applied to a real urban area (Okinawa, Japan) and area-based pricing is compared with cordon-based pricing. In this example application, the optimal toll level for area-based pricing is found to be higher than that for cordon-based pricing.

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  • https://doi.org/10.3141/1964-01
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• Authors:
  • Maruyama, Takuya
  • Harata, Noboru
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 1-8
• Monograph Title: Network Modeling 2006
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 1964
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Areas; Congestion pricing; Equilibrium (Systems); Mathematical models; Network analysis; Tolls; Trip chaining
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cordon pricing; Network equilibrium model
• Geographic Terms: Okinawa (Japan)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01020545
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309099730
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 3 2006 10:22AM