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Experimental Studies of Traffic Incident Management with Pricing, Private Information, and Diverse Subjects

项目名称：	Experimental Studies of Traffic Incident Management with Pricing, Private Information, and Diverse Subjects
摘要：	The effective management of traffic incidents and other irregular disruptions on roadways is key to minimizing travel delay and improving the quality of life for urban residents and businesses. This project is currently using economic experiments involving human subjects and a networked, realistic driving simulation to study driver behavior in response to information displayed by variable message systems and to dynamic road pricing schemes. Based on existing results, the project will propose four new extensions to this study: the addition of more realistic driving mechanics to test driver responses to the projects treatments under increased cognitive load, the recruitment of subjects outside the University of California, Irvine (UCI) student body to confirm the validity of the results with different demographic groups, the implementation of treatments to study the impact of private information messaging systems (e.g. Waze, Google Maps, etc.), and the implementation of treatments to study a novel value-of-time based auction system for toll lane pricing and allocation. Improvements to the driving realism and the representativeness of the projects experimental subject pool will strengthen the robustness and validity of this study�s results, while the investigation of private information messaging and value-of-time auction scenarios will shed light on their potential for improving transportation management.
状态：	Active
资金：	172313
资助组织：	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
管理组织：	University of California Center on Economic Competitiveness in Transportation (UCCONNECT)
执行机构：	University of California, Berkeley
主要研究人员：	McBride, Michael
开始时间：	20160501
预计完成日期：	20170430
实际结束时间：	0