The Toll Plaza Optimization Problem: Design, Operations, and Strategies

This paper presents comprehensive decision-making procedures for designing a new toll plaza with the right initial capacity, then finding the optimal dynamic lane configuration for operations, evaluating the effects of increasing future traffic volume on waiting time by sensitivity analysis, and establishing a long-term quantitative strategy by transferring low-throughput lane users to high-throughput lanes. The author develops a non-linear integer programming model integrated with the M/G/1 queueing process. A case study based on actual data demonstrates how effective the model and the strategy are in reducing operating and user-waiting costs and, thus, improving overall system performance at toll plazas.

• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VHF-4TCGM90-1/2/41308540655aabd635c69362aae5809d
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier
• Authors:
  • Kim, Seongmoon
• Publication Date: 2009-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 125-137
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
  • Volume: 45
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1366-5545
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13665545

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway design; Highway operations; Mathematical models; Optimization; Queuing; Sensitivity analysis; Toll plazas; Traffic lanes; Traffic volume; Waiting time
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01122681
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 27 2009 7:48AM