Tradable travel credits for congestion management with heterogeneous users

Xiaolei Wang, Hai Yang, Daoli Zhu and Changmin Li

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2012, vol. 48, issue 2, 426-437

Abstract: This paper carries on the recent work of Yang and Wang (2011) on tradable credit schemes by considering heterogeneous users with different value of time (VOT). Given a tradable credit scheme, the user equilibrium (UE) and market equilibrium (ME) conditions with heterogeneous users are formulated into a variational inequalities (VI) problem. Sufficient conditions for uniqueness of the aggregate UE link flows and then the ME credit price are established. Appropriate tradable credit schemes are developed to decentralize system optimal and Pareto-improving network flow patterns. Extension is made to the elastic demand case.

Keywords: Mobility management; Traffic equilibrium; Tradable credits; User heterogeneity; Networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2011.10.007

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