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Comparative Analysis of Dynamic Pricing Strategies for Managed Lanes (2012-089)

项目名称：	Comparative Analysis of Dynamic Pricing Strategies for Managed Lanes (2012-089)
摘要：	The pricing strategies on managed lanes (ML) are inspired by the congestion-pricing concept borrowed from the economics literature. This concept has been thoroughly adapted to the case of traffic flow for static user optimum and system optimum. However, little has been done in the dynamic case, where travel time delays due to congestion may change rapidly. For example, we know that the marginal cost of an alternative is a decreasing function of time and that pricing according to marginal cost does not lead to minimum system cost. These results have not been transferred to practice, which is unfortunate because existing real-time pricing strategies based on the static assumption will not lead to the desired result and in some cases (as our initial result suggests) may lead to significantly worse system performance compared to time-of-day pricing. The objective of this research is to investigate the performance of different dynamic pricing strategies for ML facilities. The focus will be on the dynamic equilibria resulting from each pricing strategy and the benefits and costs thereof. The problem will be analyzed from three perspectives: the tolling authority, the users, and society. The following pricing strategies will be analyzed: i) time-of-day pricing based on historical traffic data, ii) real-time pricing based on traffic conditions on the ML, iii) real-time pricing based on traffic conditions on the ML and general-purpose lanes, iv) real-time pricing based on travel-time prediction uncertainty, and v) a combination of these.
状态：	Completed
资金：	59541.00
资助组织：	Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Management
项目负责人：	Aviles-Spadoni, Ines
执行机构：	University Transportation Center for Alabama
开始时间：	20120815
实际结束时间：	20131115
主题领域：	Administration and Management；Economics；Highways；Operations and Traffic Management