A Dynamic Road Pricing Model for Freeway Electronic Toll Collection Systems under Build-Operate-Transfer Arrangements

Mei-Shiang Chang and Che-Fu Hsueh

Transportation Planning and Technology, 2006, vol. 29, issue 2, 91-104

Abstract: In this article, a discrete non-linear mathematical programming model with a variational inequality constraint is proposed to determine road tolls and time-varying congestion tolls for a freeway electronic toll collection system under a build-operate-transfer arrangement. An interdependent relationship between the profits of private investors and the temporal and spatial distributions of traffic demand is integrated into the proposed dynamic road-pricing model. Assuring the maximization of social welfare as a working assumption, an optimal toll scheme is determined by maximizing private investors' profits. A modified Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm integrated with the nested diagonalization method is elaborated to solve this dynamic road pricing problem. Numerical results are given to demonstrate its validity.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1080/03081060600753321

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