Incentive Systems for New Mobility Services to Reduce Congestion [Research Brief]

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• Creators:
  Ghafelebashi, Ali ; Razaviyayn, Meisam ; Dessouky, Maged
• Corporate Creators:
  National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) ; University of California, Davis. Institute of Transportation Studies
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Behavior
  • Drivers
  • Optimization
  • Organizations
  • Ridesourcing
  • Travel demand management
  • Travel time
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.7922/G2B27SMB
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  Los Angeles (California);United States
• Edition:
  Research Brief
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) (UTC)
• Abstract:
  With rapid population growth and urban development, traffic congestion has become an inescapable issue. Future mobility services may offer a new and very effective opportunity to incentivize congestion-reducing behavior. Ridesourcing, food delivery, and package delivery companies make decisions that directly or indirectly affect routing for an increasing number of drivers. These organizations have more flexibility and more power to affect traffic, and targeting them with incentives may be more efficient than incentivizing individual drivers. Motivated by this idea, researchers at the University of Southern California developed a distributed algorithm for offering incentives to organizations to make socially optimal routing decisions. The algorithm is designed to lower the traffic flow of congested roads without creating new congestion in other parts of the road network. This policy brief summarizes the findings from that research and provides research implications.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/67347/dot_67347_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 293.89 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f4ce6e547b3dd151cf5a02c4050052eeccc7d837d70cb8511e603f993fa7aeef733648ee7b8838d327f122fa890eb928738855614e56d7bc8353b48a261445d3