Urban Vehicle Congestion Pricing: A Review

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...

Congestion Pricing and Motor Vehicle Emissions: An Initial Review

Congestion Pricing: A Parking Queue Model

Drivers in urban neighborhoods who patrol streets, seeking inexpensive on-street parking create a significant fraction of measured traffic congestion. The pool of drivers patrolling at any time can be modeled as a queue, where ‘queue service’ is the act of parking in a recently vacated parking space and queue discipline is SIRO – Service In Random Order. We develop a queueing model of such driv...

Measuring Urban Traffic Congestion – a Review

Tra’c congestion has been one of major issues that most metropolises are facing. It is believed that identi cation of congestion is the rst step for selecting appropriate mitigation measures. Congestion both in perception and in reality impacts the movement of people. Tra’c congestion wastes time, energy and causes pollution. ere are broadly two factors, which e±ect the congestion; (a) micro-le...

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...

Traffic Congestion and Congestion Pricing

For several decades growth of traffic volumes has outstripped investments in road infrastructure. The result has been a relentless increase in traffic congestion. This paper reviews the economic principles behind congestion pricing in static and dynamic settings, which derive from the benefits of charging travellers for the externalities they create. Special attention is paid to various complic...