Dynamic Congestion and Urban Equilibrium

Modelling Dynamic Urban Road Networks Performance under Congestion Pricing Strategies

The development of modern information systems able to process real-time data concerning the traffic state network-wide is making possible the implementation of new forms of strategies concerning urban transportation networks management. The success of the implementation of such strategies is heavily depended on the detailed design of them. In the current study, an evaluation framework of the ap...

Urban Vehicle Congestion Pricing: A Review

Drivers in urban neighborhoods who cruise streets, seeking inexpensive on-street parking create a significant fraction of measured traffic congestion. The solution to this problem is to reduce the total traffic volume including cruising traffic by implementing a congestion pricing scheme: the imposition of a usage fee on a limited-capacity resource during times of high demand. We review the his...

Pricing Urban Congestion

This paper reviews literature on the optimal design of pricing policies to reduce urban automobile congestion. The implications of a range of complicating factors are considered, such as traffic bottlenecks, constraints on which roads and freeway lanes in the road network can be priced, driver heterogeneity, private toll operators, other externalities besides congestion, and interactions betwee...

Strong Equilibrium in Congestion Games

Congestion, equilibrium and learning: The minority game∗

The minority game is a simple congestion game with two actions and an odd number of players. Players want to choose the action that is chosen by the minority of players. We characterize the set of equilibria of the game. As the set of equilibria is large, a natural question is which equilibrium will be selected by the players. Since the pure Nash equilibria of the game are not strict and lead t...