Cordon Location and Congestion Pricing in Transportation Networks

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Parsafard, Mohsen | 2013

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 44233 (09)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Civil Engineering
Advisor(s): Zakaei Ashtian, Hedayat
Abstract:
Cordon pricing is one of the methods for charging transportation network. In a cordon based pricing scheme, users who want to drive into the congested area of city and pass some special links which form the cordon, have to pay toll. The most important things in this method of pricing are finding the appropriate links which can shape the cordon and determining the tool level. This study, investigates an algorithm to find the optimal cordon location and toll level simultaneously in order to maximize social welfare. At first, assuming that cordon location is fixed and links that form the cordon are identified, a golden section method has been proposed for finding the optimal toll level. Then, for determining optimal cordon location and toll level simultaneously, simulate annealing algorithm has been used. The proposed method in this study has been implemented in two small networks, Sioux Falls network and Mashhad transportation network and the results have been examined
Keywords:
Traffic Assignment

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