Integrated scheduling of daily work activities and morning–evening commutes with bottleneck congestion

Zhang, Xiaoning; Yang, Hai; Huang, Hai; Zhang, H. Michael

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2004.04.005

Cited by 64 publications

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“…We will explore how to set the differentiated reservation prices, and efficiently allocate the reservations among these two classes of travelers. Besides considering prices of parking, we may also link parking duration with scheduling of daily work activities, morning-evening commutes such as that considered in Zhang et al (2005).…”

Section: Revised Paper Submitted To Transportmetrica A: Transport Scimentioning

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Managing morning commute with parking space constraints in the case of a bi-modal many-to-one network

Liu

Zhang²,

Yang

2015

Transportmetrica A: Transport Science

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Recently, some studies examined how downtown parking space limitation re-shapes the morning commute in the case of a single origin-destination network. This paper further formulates and analyses the commuting equilibrium problem of both mode and departure time choices in a bi-modal (auto and public transit) many-to-one network. Several properties of the equilibrium under parking space constraints and the proposed parking reservation system are discussed. Procedures for computing the dynamic user equilibrium with a parking space constraint (either trading of reservations is allowed or not) have been developed. We show that parking reservation can help reduce deadweight loss due to parking competition and roadway congestion. We also found that assigning more reservations to travelers from a specific origin does not necessarily reduce total travel cost of them, while doing so might raise the total travel cost of travelers from other origins. When parking supply is less than the potential demand but is relatively large, it is socially preferred to retain some parking spaces open for competition. However, when the total parking supply is relatively small, all parking spaces should be reserved to travelers. Besides, we show trading of reservations among travelers would yield an efficiency loss. This loss can be fairly large thus trading should be prohibited.

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Section: Revised Paper Submitted To Transportmetrica A: Transport Scimentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing morning commute with parking space constraints in the case of a bi-modal many-to-one network

Liu

Zhang²,

Yang

2015

Transportmetrica A: Transport Science

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“…Legal barriers that prevent charges being varied are also a potential explanation for the absence of state-dependent pricing. 2 Notably, Zhang et al (2005) and (2008) analyze how individuals adjust their travel schedules in response to the occurrence of congestion and congestion-mitigation measures, such as road pricing and parking pricing. The results in Zhang et al (2008) indicate that morning road tolls results in an optimal arrival traffic pattern to related work is Johansson-Stenman (2006), who developed a theoretical framework to study the optimal road charge when congestion increases road users' fuel and wear-and-tear costs, as well as the emission release by automobile per km.…”

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Air pollution dynamics and the need for temporally differentiated road pricing

Coria

Bonilla

Grundström

et al. 2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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In this paper we investigate the effects of the temporal variation of pollution dispersion, traffic flows and vehicular emissions on pollution concentration and illustrate the need for temporally differentiated road pricing through an application to the case of the congestion charge in Stockholm, Sweden. By accounting explicitly for the role of pollution dispersion on optimal road pricing, we allow for a more comprehensive view of the economy-ecology interactions at stake, showing that price differentiation is an optimal response to the physical environment. Most congestion charges in place incorporate price bans to mitigate congestion. Our analysis indicates that, to ensure compliance with air quality standards, such price variations should also be a response to limited pollution dispersion.

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“…Huang (2002, 2003) proposed a combined activity/travel choice model for capacity-constrained networks, in which choice of route and departure time is modeled simultaneously. Zhang et al (2005) established an equilibrium model considering path choice and congestion state based on the bottleneck model; however, the dynamic link travel time was simplified. As to the representation of travel behavior, these studies have only looked at specific combinations of choice facets but with less focus on behavioral realism.…”

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Dynamic activity-travel assignment in multi-state supernetworks

Liu

Liao

Huang

et al. 2015

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

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The integration of activity-based modeling and dynamic traffic assignment for travel demand analysis has recently attracted everincreasing attention. However, related studies have limitations either on the integration structure or the number of choice facets being captured. This paper proposes a formulation of dynamic activity-travel assignment (DATA) in the framework of multi-state supernetworks, in which any path through a personalized supernetwork represents a particular activity-travel pattern (ATP) at a high level of spatial and temporal detail. DATA is formulated as a discrete-time dynamic user equilibrium (DUE) problem, which is reformulated as an equivalent variational inequality (VI) problem. A generalized dynamic link disutility function is established with the accommodation of different characteristics of the links in the supernetworks. Flow constraints and nonuniqueness of equilibria are also investigated. In the proposed formulation, the choice of departure time, route, mode, activity sequence, activity and parking location are all unified into one time-dependent ATP choice. As a result, the interdependences among all these choice facets can be readily captured. A solution algorithm based on the route-swapping mechanism is adopted to find the user equilibrium. A numerical example with simulated scenarios is provided to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed approach.

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Integrated scheduling of daily work activities and morning–evening commutes with bottleneck congestion

Cited by 64 publications

References 36 publications

Managing morning commute with parking space constraints in the case of a bi-modal many-to-one network

Managing morning commute with parking space constraints in the case of a bi-modal many-to-one network

Air pollution dynamics and the need for temporally differentiated road pricing

Dynamic activity-travel assignment in multi-state supernetworks

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