Dynamic road pricing for optimizing network performance with heterogeneous users

Design and evaluation of road pricing: state-of-the-art and methodological advances

“…With the exception of a few studies which deal with the heterogeneity of the value of travel time [112,181,235,354] and diversified travelers' cost structures [399], the current design of dynamic congestion pricing schemes generally fails to adequately consider the effect of differentiated attributes of vehicles and users (including route choice uncertainty) required for the imposition of discriminatory toll rates (as defined in Section 3.1.2). In particular, the important issue of reliability may be separately introduced into the design of dynamic congestion pricing schemes from two different points of view: (a) that of travelers, in terms of a path reliability component in their utility function [112,319,337], and (b) that of road providers, where the optimal charge or optimal links for charging are sought to optimize network travel time reliability, subject to the DTA-based responses of users.…”

Evolutionary game-theoretic model for dynamic congestion pricing in multi-class traffic networks

“…Existing modeling efforts are mostly limited to the representation of group-based variations in the Value of Travel Time (VOTT) of users [8,20]. In this paper, multiple user classes are identified in terms of the VOTT and information acquisition rate.…”

Selfish Yet Optimal Routing by Adjusting Perceived Traffic Information of Road Networks

“…The main difference of the proposed scheme from the congestion pricing is the internalization of the marginal cost into traffic information, i.e., perceived travel time. In the proposed scheme, users' selfish routing unconsciously results in the optimal routing by leveraging the nudging traffic information without the user cooperation [8], [10]- [14] and the payment of congestion fees [15]- [21].…”