Dynamic Tolling Strategies for Managed Lanes
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 135, Issue 2
Abstract
This paper proposes two sensible approaches that may be potentially implemented in practice to determine pricing strategies for operating managed toll lanes. The tolls vary dynamically in response to real-time traffic conditions in order to provide a superior free-flow travel service to the users of the toll lanes while maximizing the freeway’s throughput. Simulation experiments are conducted to validate and compare the proposed approaches.
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 135 • Issue 2 • February 2009
Pages: 45 - 52
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© 2009 ASCE.
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Received: Nov 17, 2006
Accepted: Jul 21, 2008
Published online: Feb 1, 2009
Published in print: Feb 2009
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