Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1131925 Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 2014 17 Pages PDF
Abstract

•A new charging pattern for cordon-based congestion pricing scheme.•Nonlinear distance-toll is taken as its special case.•Link-based convex models for Logit-based SSO and SUE.•An exact solution method for joint distance and time toll.

This paper addresses the optimal toll design problem for the cordon-based congestion pricing scheme, where both a time-toll and a nonlinear distance-toll (i.e., joint distance and time toll) are levied for each network user’s trip in a pricing cordon. The users’ route choice behaviour is assumed to follow the Logit-based stochastic user equilibrium (SUE). We first propose a link-based convex programming model for the Logit-based SUE problem with a joint distance and time toll pattern. A mathematical program with equilibrium constraints (MPEC) is developed to formulate the optimal joint distance and time toll design problem. The developed MPEC model is equivalently transformed into a semi-infinite programming (SIP) model. A global optimization method named Incremental Constraint Method (ICM) is designed for solving the SIP model. Finally, two numerical examples are used to assess the proposed methodology.

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