Commuting Pattern with Park-and-Ride Option for Heterogeneous Commuters

Chengjuan Zhu, Bin Jia, Linghui Han and Ziyou Gao

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-8

Abstract:

We study the effect of the parking on heterogeneous commuters' travel choice in a competitive transportation system which consists of a subway and a parallel road with a bottleneck of limited service capacity. Every morning, commuters either use their private cars only or drive their cars to the bottleneck, park there, and then take the subway to the destination. Considering the effects caused by body congestion in carriage and the parking fees, we developed a bottleneck model to describe the commuters' travel choice. There exist several types of equilibrium that corresponds to user equilibrium. We investigated the influence of the capacity of the bottleneck and the total travel demand on the travel behaviors and on the total social cost. It is shown that there exists a scheme with suitable subway fare and parking fees to implement the minimum total social cost.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/185612

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