A dynamic cordon pricing scheme combining the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram and an agent-based traffic model

An analytical approximation for the macroscopic fundamental diagram of urban traffic

This paper shows that a macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) relating flow and average density must exist on any street with blocks of diverse widths and lengths, but no turns, even if all or some of the intersections are controlled by arbitrarily timed traffic signals. The timing patterns are assumed to be fixed in time. Exact expressions in terms of a shortest path recipe are given, both, fo...

Revenue management and seller pricing decisions in retail industry: An agent-based model

Marginal cost congestion pricing based on the network fundamental diagram

Congestion pricing schemes have been traditionally derived based on analytical representations of travel demand and traffic flows, such as in bottleneck models. A major limitation of these models, especially when applied to urban networks, is the inconsistency with traffic dynamics and related phenomena such as hysteresis and the capacity drop. In this study we propose a new method to derive ti...

Agent-Based En-Route Diversion: Dynamic Behavioral Responses and Network Performance Represented by Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams

Abstract This paper focuses on modeling agents’ en-route diversion behavior under information provision. The behavior model is estimated based on näıve Bayes rules and re-calibrated using a Bayesian approach. Stated-preference driving simulator data is employed for model estimation. Bluetooth-based field data is employed for re-calibration. Then the behavior model is integrated with a simulatio...

Hysteresis phenomena of a Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram in freeway networks

0965-8564/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.tra.2011.04.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +41 21 69 32481; fa E-mail address: [email protected] (N. G Observations of traffic pairs of flow vs. density or occupancy for individual locations in freeways or arterials are usually scattered about an underlying curve. Recent observations from empirical data in arterial networ...