Congestion pricing has been advocated as an efficient way to mitigate traffic congestion since 1920s. A prevalent form of congestion pricing in the U.S. is high occupancy/toll (HOT) lanes. The operating objective of HOT lanes is to improve the throughput of the whole freeway segment while ensuring a superior level of service on HOT lanes. To achieve this, ideally tolls should vary in response to real-time traffic conditions. Microscopic simulation has been used to evaluate pricing schemes or operation strategies of managed lanes. As a trustworthy traffic simulation tool, CORSIM has a very limited capability of simulating dynamic tolling strategies and drivers lane choice behaviors in the presence of tolls. This research enhanced CORSIM and developed a CORSIM-based simulation platform to evaluate the impacts of a variety of pricing strategies on managed-lane operations


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    Title :

    Enhancing CORSIM for Simulation High Occupancy/Toll Lane Operations


    Contributors:
    D. Michalak (author) / D. Hale (author) / T. Simmerman (author) / Y. Yin (author) / S. Washburn (author)

    Publication date :

    2012


    Size :

    69 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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