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Pareto-improving congestion pricing and revenue refunding with multiple user classes
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Transportation Research Part B: Methodological . Sep2010, Vol. 44 Issue 8/9, p972-982. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Abstract: This study investigates Pareto-improving congestion pricing and revenue refunding schemes in general transportation networks, which make every road user better off as compared with the situation without congestion pricing. We consider user heterogeneity in value of time (VOT) by adopting a multiclass user model with fixed origin–destination (OD) demands. We first prove that an OD and class-based Pareto-improving refunding scheme exists if and only if the total system monetary travel disutility is reduced. In view of the practical difficulty in identifying individual user’s VOT, we further investigate class-anonymous refunding schemes that give the same amount of refund to all user classes traveling between the same OD pair regardless of their VOTs. We establish a sufficient condition for the existence of such OD-specific but class-anonymous Pareto-improving refunding schemes, which needs information only on the average toll paid and average travel time for trips between each OD pair. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
- Subjects :
- *PARETO analysis
*TRAFFIC congestion
*PRICING
*REBATES
*TRANSPORTATION
*TOLLS
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01912615
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 8/9
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 52199770
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2009.12.009