"Optimal locations of toll stations in a road pricing system : an investigation into feasibility of optimization methods." Study commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Transport and Public Works.

Road pricing is regarded as a major instrument for managing car travel in the Netherlands, especially in the urbanized western part of the country. The general idea is that by charging road users the rapidly increasing demand for car travel can be reduced. Partly this reduction is achieved by suppressing travel generation and partly by diverting car travel to other modes, mainly to public transport. This report presents the results of an investigation into the feasibility of the so-called bilevel programming methods for solving network design problems related to the Dutch road pricing system. These network design problems deal with the choice of the locations of the toll stations and the tolls to be charged. (A)