Investigating undesired spatial and temporal boundary effects of congestion charging
| Autor: | Xuegang Ban, Bingrong Sun, Sainan Zhang, Kathryn Stewart, Ying-En Ge |
|---|---|
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
050210 logistics & transportation
Boundary effects Operations research 388 Transportation ground transportation Computer science 05 social sciences Boundary (topology) Transportation Context (language use) 010501 environmental sciences Congestion pricing 01 natural sciences Transport Research Institute Term (time) dynamic user equilibrium traffic congestion pricing Modeling and Simulation 0502 economics and business Boundary value problem Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution boundary effects HE Transportation and Communications Software Simulation 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| ISSN: | 2168-0566 2168-0582 |
| Popis: | Two types of reported problems are related to the existing congestion charging projects that levy traffic only in a certain area within one or a few time periods during the day. One is that travellers depart earlier or later than a charging period to avoid paying full or part of the congestion charging tolls, which creates two undesired demand peaks that are often greater than available capacity. One peak comes just before the start of congestion charging and the other follows the end of it. We term this phenomenon ‘temporal boundary effect’ of congestion charging. The other reported problem is that travellers would rather stay away from a charging zone than pay congestion charging tolls, which causes undesired congestion on those roads or paths on the edge of the charging zone. We call this phenomenon ‘spatial boundary effect’ generated by congestion charging. This research investigates these boundary effects in the context of simultaneous route and departure time choice dynamic user equilibrium (SRD-DUE) network flows with an aim to gain new insights into congestion charging design. Numerical experiments investigating constant and time-varying congestion charging toll profiles are presented in this paper. This investigation shows that congestion charging may not be able to eliminate hypercongestion efficiently if schemes are not well designed, and can unfortunately give rise to undesired boundary effects and that a simply designed congestion charging scheme with small level toll or time-varying toll profiles can reduce the magnitude of boundary effects but may not be able to fully eliminate such undesired effects |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|