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Enhancing CORSIM for simulating high occupancy/toll lane operations.
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2012-03-15
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Alternative Title:Final report to the Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation (CMS)
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Edition:Final report.
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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.
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