Making Hot Lanes Benefit Every Traveler— Design, Pricing, and Analysis

Details

• Creators:
  Zhang, Michael ; Dessouky, Maged ; Gao, Hang ; Gu, Wei
• Corporate Creators:
  METRANS Transportation Center (Calif.) ; University of Southern California, Los Angeles
• 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:
  • Carpools
  • High occupancy toll lanes
  • Commuters
  • Morning
  • Traffic congestion
  • Traffic equilibrium
  • Traffic flow
• Publication/ Report Number:
  PSR-20-07
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Research Report (Aug. 2020 – Dec. 2021
• Corporate Publisher:
  METRANS Transportation Center (Calif.)
• Abstract:
  High-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, as high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes that permit solo-drivers to use them with a charge, play an important role in reducing congestion, vehicle hours traveled (VHT), and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the morning commute. In this project, we formulate the morning commute problems with mixed traffic flows on HOT lanes as Differential Complementary Systems (DCS) under two scenarios: (1) two-equilibria model: with total number of solo-drivers and carpoolers fixed, carpoolers reach one equilibrium while solo-drivers reach another (at an equilibrium state, the travel costs of individual commuters are identical); (2) one-equilibrium model: with total number of travelers known, carpoolers and solo-drivers reach one equilibrium.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  69A3551747109
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/67412/dot_67412_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.13 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers
• Main Document Checksum:
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