An integrated system model for evaluating the impact of the dynamic ICC toll policy on the regional network mobility.

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• Creators:
  Chang, Gang Len ; Cirillo, Cinzia ; Serulle, Nayel R. J. Urena ; Hetrakul, Pratt
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Pennsylvania State University ; Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute ; United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Road pricing
  • Congestion pricing
  • Pricing
  • Travel demand
  • Travel demand management
  • Traffic congestion
  • Traffic flow
  • Socioeconomic factors
  • Tolls
  • Variable tolls
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  UMD-2009-09
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Maryland
• Edition:
  Final; 1/1/10-12/31/11.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center
• Abstract:
  Road pricing has been advocated as an efficient travel demand management to alleviate congestion since the ; seminal work by Pigou (1920) and Knight (1924) (see Lindsey, 2006, for recent reviews). More specifically, dynamic ; toll pricing has received greater interest among policy makers and public agencies due to its potential for lowering ; energy costs for society. Some analytical studies (e.g., Arnott et al., 1990) have found that dynamic toll pricing ; generally yield greater efficiency gains than static toll pricing because the former reduce queueing delays by altering ; travelers’ departure times as well as routes. ; The construction of the Inter-county Connector (ICC) has certainly offered the prospect of reducing travel time ; between the I-270 and I-95 corridors, and may potentially alleviate congestion on the I-270 and I-495. Given that the ; ICC relies on dynamic toll pricing scheme, its daily traffic volumes are governed by individual trip-makers’ perceived ; time and cost saving in the term of value of travel time (VOT). Moreover, the ability to realistically capture trip-makers’ ; responses to time-varying road charges in term of willingness to pay (WTP) for toll is essential for predicting network ; flows and network equilibrium assignment models. These behavioral characteristics of users vary across individuals. ; Therefore capturing the heterogeneity of users in this regard is critical in predicting the impact of dynamic pricing ; schemes (e.g., Lu et al., 2008). ; This study proposes the model that enables practitioners to integrate user response to dynamic toll pricing. The ; analysis accounts for cost and time savings perceived by regional drivers and the users’ response to time-varying ; road charges. More specifically, the study captures difference in behavioral characteristics of the willingness to pay ; (WTP) for toll across users socioeconomics and trip related characteristics such as time of day, and trip purpose. The ; analysis is expected to be useful for transportation agency responsible for the ICC operations.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRT07-G-0003
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24358/dot_24358_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 257.58 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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