HighlightsA mechanism for setting dynamic and adaptive tolls denoted Delta-toll is presented.Delta-tolling is proven to yield system optimal flow under some conditions.Traffic simulators are used to present the effectiveness of Delta-tolling.
AbstractThis article proposes Δ-tolling, a simple adaptive pricing scheme which only requires travel time observations and two tuning parameters. These tolls are applied throughout a road network, and can be updated as frequently as travel time observations are made. Notably, Δ-tolling does not require any details of the traffic flow or travel demand models other than travel time observations, rendering it easy to apply in real-time. The flexibility of this tolling scheme is demonstrated in three specific traffic modeling contexts with varying traffic flow and user behavior assumptions: a day-to-day pricing model using static network equilibrium with link delay functions; a within-day adaptive pricing model using the cell transmission model and dynamic routing of vehicles; and a microsimulation of reservation-based intersection control for connected and autonomous vehicles with myopic routing. In all cases, Δ-tolling produces significant benefits over the no-toll case, measured in terms of average travel time and social welfare, while only requiring two parameters to be tuned. Some optimality results are also given for the special case of the static network equilibrium model with BPR-style delay functions.
Network-wide adaptive tolling for connected and automated vehicles
Tramsportation Research, Part C: Emerging Technologies ; 84 ; 142-157
2017-08-22
16 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
TOLLING STATION FOR TOLLING VEHICLES OF DIFFERENT CLASSES
European Patent Office | 2020
|Tolling station for tolling vehicles of different classes
European Patent Office | 2020
|Transportation Research Record | 2008
|Transportation Research Record | 2023
|Tolling Heavy Goods Vehicles on Germany's Autobahnen
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2005
|