Abstract
Traffic congestion has long been a noticeable issue worldwide. Besides congestion caused by the daily commuters, congestion during public holidays is also very typical. The traffic volume often has a sharp increase during public holidays, which puts a heavy burden on the road capacity and results in severe congestion. This is especially true for the beginning and ending of the holidays. The situation is even worse under some government policies designed initially to benefit people, e.g. the highway toll-exemption during public holidays in China. The focus of this paper is to model the evolution of traffic congestion caused by the demand from residential place to the famous resorts during public holidays. The research questions include: (1) how do tourists tradeoff between schedule delay, queuing time and the overcrowding of the resort? and (2) the impact of the toll-exemption policy during public holidays on tourists’ departure time choices and the social welfare. By adopting the bottleneck model, we obtain the cumulative departure curves of tourists during public holidays. Closed-form results of tourists’ departure time variation with the toll-exemption policy are obtained, as well as the resulting social efficiency loss, which is significant for the management of the traffic mobility during public holidays.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 58-81 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Transportation Research Part B: Methodological |
| Volume | 104 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2017 |
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Keywords
- Bottleneck
- Departure time choices
- Public holidays
- Toll-exemption
- Traffic congestion
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Investigation of the traffic congestion during public holiday and the impact of the toll-exemption policy. / Bao, Yue; Xiao, Feng; Gao, Zaihan; Gao, Ziyou.
In: Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 104, 01.10.2017, p. 58-81.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigation of the traffic congestion during public holiday and the impact of the toll-exemption policy
AU - Bao, Yue
AU - Xiao, Feng
AU - Gao, Zaihan
AU - Gao, Ziyou
PY - 2017/10/1
Y1 - 2017/10/1
N2 - Traffic congestion has long been a noticeable issue worldwide. Besides congestion caused by the daily commuters, congestion during public holidays is also very typical. The traffic volume often has a sharp increase during public holidays, which puts a heavy burden on the road capacity and results in severe congestion. This is especially true for the beginning and ending of the holidays. The situation is even worse under some government policies designed initially to benefit people, e.g. the highway toll-exemption during public holidays in China. The focus of this paper is to model the evolution of traffic congestion caused by the demand from residential place to the famous resorts during public holidays. The research questions include: (1) how do tourists tradeoff between schedule delay, queuing time and the overcrowding of the resort? and (2) the impact of the toll-exemption policy during public holidays on tourists’ departure time choices and the social welfare. By adopting the bottleneck model, we obtain the cumulative departure curves of tourists during public holidays. Closed-form results of tourists’ departure time variation with the toll-exemption policy are obtained, as well as the resulting social efficiency loss, which is significant for the management of the traffic mobility during public holidays.
AB - Traffic congestion has long been a noticeable issue worldwide. Besides congestion caused by the daily commuters, congestion during public holidays is also very typical. The traffic volume often has a sharp increase during public holidays, which puts a heavy burden on the road capacity and results in severe congestion. This is especially true for the beginning and ending of the holidays. The situation is even worse under some government policies designed initially to benefit people, e.g. the highway toll-exemption during public holidays in China. The focus of this paper is to model the evolution of traffic congestion caused by the demand from residential place to the famous resorts during public holidays. The research questions include: (1) how do tourists tradeoff between schedule delay, queuing time and the overcrowding of the resort? and (2) the impact of the toll-exemption policy during public holidays on tourists’ departure time choices and the social welfare. By adopting the bottleneck model, we obtain the cumulative departure curves of tourists during public holidays. Closed-form results of tourists’ departure time variation with the toll-exemption policy are obtained, as well as the resulting social efficiency loss, which is significant for the management of the traffic mobility during public holidays.
KW - Bottleneck
KW - Departure time choices
KW - Public holidays
KW - Toll-exemption
KW - Traffic congestion
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U2 - 10.1016/j.trb.2017.05.011
DO - 10.1016/j.trb.2017.05.011
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VL - 104
SP - 58
EP - 81
JO - Transportation Research. Part B: Methodological
JF - Transportation Research. Part B: Methodological
SN - 0191-2615
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