Date of Award
12-17-2015
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering
Keywords
congestion pricing, road bottleneck, system cost optimization, value of time
Supervisor
Guo, Xiaolei
Supervisor
Zhang, Guoqing
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
We study the morning commute problem with a peak period flat toll, where the toll has a maximum acceptable toll level and a maximum acceptable length of tolling period. Under such a constrained optimization setup, we investigate the system cost minimization problem. A tolling scheme is determined by the toll starting time, the toll ending time, and the toll level. The toll starting time and ending time are set before and after the common work start time, respectively. We find out that, under the toll window length constraint only, a balanced toll window design is always optimal, where “balanced” means that the part of the toll window before the work start time and the part after have equal monetary value. Under both the toll level and the toll window length constraints, the balanced design is optimal if feasible; otherwise the toll should start later with the same toll window length.
Recommended Citation
Xu, Da, "Constrained optimization for bottleneck peak hour pricing" (2015). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5678.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5678