Theoretical bounds of congestion pricing efficiency for a continuum transportation system.

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Ho, H.W. Wong, S.C. & Hau, T.D.
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Abstract

Consider a city of arbitrary shape where users are distributed continuously over the city region. Within this region, the road network is dense andcan be represented as a continuum: users patronize a two-dimensional continuum network to the central business district. A congestion-pricing technique is applied to this continuum transportation system to maximise its total social welfare. This study presents the theoretical bounds for the efficiency of this congestion-pricing scheme for both the fixed and elastic demand cases. The ratio of total costs and total social welfare between thesystem-optimal and user-optimal travel patterns are taken as the measuresofthe efficiency in the fixed and elastic demand cases, respectively. With a better understanding of the efficiency of congestion-pricing, trafficplanners can better comprehend the likely benefit that is obtainable froma congestion-pricing scheme. For the covering abstract see ITRD E144727. Reprinted with permission of Elsevier.

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C 48412 (In: C 48400) /10 /71 /72 / ITRD E144892
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In: Transportation and traffic theory 2007 : papers selected for presentation at the 17th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT17), held at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, UK from July 23 - 25, 2007, p. 263-280, 16 ref.

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