Tradable travel credits for congestion management with heterogeneous users

Wang, Xiaolei; Yang, Hai; Zhu, Daqi; Li, Changmin

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2011.10.007

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“…Given the ongoing growth of excessive car use demand in many urban contexts and the massive unpopularity of traditional pricing-based measures, together with the present availability of advanced and ubiquitous ICT technologies, the tradable credit approach for managing car mobility has been more vigorously researched in recent years. Yang and Wang's study (2011), which theoretically demonstrated that a tradable credits scheme leads to the most desirable network traffic flows in a revenue-neutral way under an appropriate credits allocation and correct link-specific charges, led to many other studies that analyze traffic patterns and credit price behavior under different user and market equilibrium assumptions (e.g., Wu, Yin, Lawphongpanich, & Yang, 2012;Wang, Yang, Zhu, & Li, 2012;Ye & Yang, 2013;Nie & Yin, 2013;Xiao, Qian, & Zhang, 2013;Bao, Gao, Xu, & Yang, 2014;Wang, Gao, Xu, & Sun, 2014). The focus of these studies therefore has largely been on macroscopic analysis.…”

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Willingness to change car use under a tradable driving credits scheme: A comparison between Beijing and the Netherlands

Dogterom¹,

Xu²,

Bao³

et al. 2018

JTLU

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Abstract:Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the concept of tradable driving credits (TDC) as an alternative to road pricing and driving restriction measures. However, empirical research into drivers' responses to a TDC measure is limited and even lacking for the Chinese context where the concept of TDC has attracted considerable attention. This paper reports the results of a survey that was the first to investigate drivers' willingness to change car use under a hypothetical distance-based TDC measure in China (Beijing) and aimed to compare these results with the results of a comparative Dutch survey. We observed that willingness to change was considerably higher in Beijing than in the Netherlands and that a substantial share of Beijing car owners indicated an increase in car use. In both contexts, higher education and higher car use intensity had a positive effect on the willingness to change, whereas higher income had a negative effect. We found mixed results for household size, respondents' car attitudes, and TDC scenario characteristics.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Willingness to change car use under a tradable driving credits scheme: A comparison between Beijing and the Netherlands

Dogterom¹,

Xu²,

Bao³

et al. 2018

JTLU

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“…The interested reader for a comprehensive review of the former subject can consult with [18,30,31] and for the latter with [1,20,24,[32][33][34][35].…”

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A modern congestion pricing policy for urban traffic: subsidy plus toll

Bagloee

Sarvi

2017

J. Mod. Transport.

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Congestion pricing is seen as an effective policy to address traffic congestion. In such policies where money, people and authorities are involved, the success generally hinges upon two factors: equity (being fair) and acceptability (to both people and authorities). The primary concern is the equity, for which ''tradable credit scheme (TCS)'' has been introduced and extensively studied in the literature. Nevertheless, due to the complexity of the trading schemes, the TCS has yet to find any foot in the real world. To this end, a novel idea of rewarding has substituted the trading component to be known as toll-and-subsidy scheme (TSS). The idea is to charge the drivers on some roads (toll) while rewarding them to use other alternative-and perhaps underutilizedroads (subsidy). The research of the TSS is in its infancy stage. The problem to be tackled in this study is as follows: Given a set of roads constituting a cordon line around the central business district (CBD) or across a screen line, how much toll or subsidy should be assigned to each road? The problem is first transformed into a capacitated traffic assignment problem. We employ a solution method based on augmenting the travel time of roads up to the level at which the traffic volumes do not exceed some target rates. A real dataset from the city of Winnipeg, Canada, is used as a pilot study. We then discuss policy-related applications of the TSS. It is proved in the literature that one can obtain optimal TSSs for various objectives and considerations. To this end, the non-negativity of the toll values is relaxed which results in a valid toll set. Nevertheless, the computational time is found to be of highest significance. Our method differs in the fact that the traffic volumes are bounded from the above and it is quite affordable. The main contribution is first to highlight the concept of subsidy along with traditional thought of merely toll. Second is to interpret the Lagrangian values of the capacity constraints as the values of the toll/subsidy.

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“…The method of proving the above proposition can be seen in Facchinei and Pang (2003) and Wang et al (2012).…”

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“…For the method of proving the above proposition, readers may consult Facchinei and Pang (2003) and Wang et al (2012). The dynamical system model (2) satisfies two principles.…”

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confidence: 99%