Dynamic equilibrium commuting in a multilane system with ridesharing

Wei-Hong Li, Hai-Jun Huang () and Hua-Yan Shang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2020, vol. 557, issue C

Abstract: High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane has been designed to maximize the movement of people rather than vehicles. For completely understanding the travel pattern of a multilane highway system, this paper presents a dynamic user equilibrium framework, in which commuters, composed of solo-driving drivers, ridesharing drivers and ridesharing passengers, choose their departure times and transport modes to workplace every day. The ridesharing vehicles can use both the HOV lane and the general purpose lane while the solo drivers are only allowed to use the latter. It is found that the rush hour on both lanes is identical but the system’s total travel cost decreases, in a nonlinear way, with the expansion of HOV lane’s capacity.

Keywords: Dynamic user equilibrium; HOV lane; Ridesharing scheme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2020.124860

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