Novel approaches for road congestion minimization.

PDFTech Report2010-001Traffic congestionTollsCongestion pricingTravel demandAlgorithmsUnited StatesUniversity of Florida. Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion MitigationPardalos, Panos M.University of FloridaNTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-CongestionNTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATIONNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Travel DemandUS Transportation CollectionTransportation planning is usually aiming to solve two problems: the traffic assignment and the toll pricing problems. The latter one utilizes information from the first one, in order to find the optimal set of tolls that is the set of tolls that leads to a user equilibrium solution and that would benefit all travelers-users. This problem is particularly hard, so an evolutionary algorithm is proposed based on the work by Buriol et al. (2005) and Ericsson et al. (2002). Computational results are given to depict the success of our approach