TIME, SPEEDS, FLOWS AND DENSITIES IN STATIC MODELS OF ROAD TRAFFIC CONGESTION AND CONGESTION PRICING

This paper examines some of the features of static models of road traffic congestion that have caused debate in the literature. The first section focuses on the difficulties arising with the backward-bending cost curve defined over traffic flows within the context of "continuous congestion." The significance of the backward-bending segment of this curve is questioned by showing that the "equilibria" on this segment of the cost curve are dynamically infeasible. The next part explores the implications for static models of "peak congestion." By so doing, attention is paid also to the implicit assumptions, especially the nature of scheduling costs, that are necessary to render static models of peak congestion internally consistent. This research concludes with a short discussion of the implications for dynamic models of peak congestion.

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• Authors:
  • VERHOEF, E T
• Publication Date: 1999-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 341-369
• Serial:
  • Regional Science and Urban Economics
  • Volume: 29
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0166-0462
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01660462

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dynamic models; Highway transportation; Peak hour traffic; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow
• Uncontrolled Terms: Continuous congestion; Cost curves; Scheduling costs; Static models
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00791372
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 11 2000 12:00AM