Enhancing CORSIM for simulating high occupancy/toll lane operations.

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• Alternative Title:
  Final report to the Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation (CMS)
• Creators:
  Michalaka, Dimitra ; Hale, David ; Simmerman, Tom ; Yin, Yafeng ; Washburn, Scott
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Florida. Dept. of Civil and Coastal Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic lanes
  • High occupancy vehicle lanes
  • High occupancy toll lanes
  • Toll roads
  • Road pricing
  • Congestion pricing
  • Traffic congestion
  • Traffic flow Traffic lanes
  • High occupancy vehicle lanes
  • High occupancy toll lanes
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  2010-005
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Edition:
  Final report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Florida. Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation
• Abstract:
  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.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24720/dot_24720_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.38 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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