Coarse tolling with heterogeneous preferences

Berg, Vincent A.C. van den

doi:10.1016/j.trb.2014.03.001

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“…The average values were chosen in the following way. The value of time for long distance travellers in the California State Route 91 ranks between 7.09 and 29.42 $/h (Small et al 2005) and the high variability in the results was explained by the kind of survey conducted, i.e. stated preferences or revealed preferences.…”

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Optimal Welfare Price for a Road Corridor With Heterogeneous Users

2019

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In some countries it is fairly common to see two roads with the same origin and destination competing in the same corridor. One of them is usually a toll highway that offers a better quality to the users compared to its alternative: a free parallel single road, which might be tolled as well. This kind of transport network has been largely studied in the academic literature and particularly the optimal combination of tolls that maximizes economic efficiency. If both roads are tolled the problem is known as the first best, otherwise it is called the “untolled alternative”. There is a gap regarding how income distribution affects the optimal toll. The main objective of this paper is to add knowledge in the area by analysing the influence of the distribution of the Values of Travel Time (VTT) of the users of this corridor on the optimal combination of tolls. To solve this problem, the authors define a mathematical model aimed at obtaining the optimal welfare price for this kind of corridor under the hypothesis that drivers decide over the expectation of free flow conditions. The results show that the higher the average VTT the higher the optimal price, and the higher the dispersion (variance) of this VTT the lower the optimal price. It was also found that low income users who are not able to internalize externalities should not travel. Finally, first best pricing and untolled alternative schemes match for high income users

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Optimal Welfare Price for a Road Corridor With Heterogeneous Users

2019

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“…Furthermore, Vincent and van den Berg [15] investigated the welfare distribution effects among heterogeneous commuters after the implementation of a single-step toll scheme. This study analyzed and compared three queuing pricing models: the ADL model, the Laih model, and the Breaking model.…”

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Maximizing Efficiency in the Suez Canal: A New Approach to Evaluate the Impact of Optimal Time-Varying Tolls on Ship Arrival Times

Laih

2023

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In the existing literature, an optimal time-varying toll scheme has been proposed for the Suez Canal to address the inefficiency of numerous ships queuing and waiting at the anchorage area to enter the canal. The primary objective of this tolling strategy is to alleviate the significant issue of ships queuing at the canal’s anchorage area. This stands in contrast to the current tolling system employed by the Suez Canal, which primarily aims to recover the management and operational costs associated with ship passage through the canal. However, the existing literature has yet to explore how the arrival times of ships at the anchorage area will change after implementing the optimal time-varying toll scheme. The goal is to ensure that the equilibrium cost of each tolled ship does not result in losses and achieve maximum efficiency in eliminating queueing at the anchorage area. To address this gap, this paper adopts the principle of cost equilibrium conservation and utilizes the Point-Slope Form to derive two mathematical formulas representing all ships’ post-toll arrival times at the anchorage area of the Suez Canal. These formulas are specifically derived for two categories of tolled ships: those that enter the canal earlier than the latest entry time regulated by the canal authorities and those that enter later. The derived formulas are concise and comparative, strengthening the theoretical underpinnings of the current pricing model for a queuing canal. Furthermore, they serve as valuable references for canal authorities in devising pertinent measures, such as organizing the scheduling of canal pilots, to facilitate the implementation of the optimal time-varying toll scheme.

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“…Now the authors will evaluate the capability of the proposed tradable credit scheme to maintain the queue length requirement under traveler heterogeneity in scheduling parameters. Although it is desirable to conduct such analysis under a general heterogeneity in which travelers may have any value of α, β, and γ, for tractability the authors have limited their attention to two well-known types of user heterogeneity in the literature (26,27): proportional heterogeneity and γ heterogeneity. The former represents the situation in which all scheduling parameters may vary among travelers but their ratios are assumed to be fixed, whereas the latter casts the situation in which only the consequence of late arrival is different among the travelers (i.e., the travelers have the same α and β but different γ).…”

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Tradable Credit Scheme to Control Bottleneck Queue Length

Shirmohammadi

Yin

2016

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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This paper proposes to use tradable credits to control the maximum queue length at a bottleneck. Given a queue length threshold specified by the traffic authority, the authors designed a tradable credit scheme to maintain the queue length of the bottleneck to be less than the threshold for homogenous travelers. The scheme was compared against a multistep tolling scheme under demand uncertainty. The authors then studied the capability of the tradable credit scheme in the presence of two types of user heterogeneity: proportional heterogeneity and heterogeneity in unit schedule penalty associated with late arrival (γ heterogeneity). It was found that the proposed scheme could successfully maintain the queue length under proportional heterogeneity, but not necessarily under γ heterogeneity. However, if the distribution of γ heterogeneity were known in advance, the scheme could be modified to ensure success in controlling queue length.

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Coarse tolling with heterogeneous preferences

Cited by 38 publications

References 17 publications

Optimal Welfare Price for a Road Corridor With Heterogeneous Users

Optimal Welfare Price for a Road Corridor With Heterogeneous Users

Maximizing Efficiency in the Suez Canal: A New Approach to Evaluate the Impact of Optimal Time-Varying Tolls on Ship Arrival Times

Tradable Credit Scheme to Control Bottleneck Queue Length

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