Impacts of carpooling on trip costs under car-following model

Hui Ou and Tie-Qiao Tang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2018, vol. 505, issue C, 136-143

Abstract: Carpooling can relieve the traffic congestion, so it has been enforced in many countries. However, little effort has been made to study the impacts of carpooling on the commuting problem from the car-following model. In this paper, we apply a generalized car-following model to study each commuter’s trip cost and the corresponding total cost in a traffic corridor when carpooling is allowed. The numerical result show that carpooling has some prominent positive influences on the commuting problem (i.e., each commuter’s trip cost is reduced) and that the influences are directly dependent on the size of carpooling and each commuter’s time headway at the origin. The results indicate that carpooling can be used to relieve the traffic congestion.

Keywords: Carpooling; Car-following model; Early arrival; Late arrival; Trip cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2018.03.042

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