This article evaluates Pay-As-You-Drive (PAYD) vehicle insurance pricing with regard to insurance regulatory objectives. PAYD pricing means that insurance premiums are based directly on the amount a vehicle is driven during the policy term. It changes the exposure unit from the vehicleyear to the vehicle-mile, vehicle-kilometer or vehicle-minute. It incorporates other rating factors so lower-ri...

Stop and go traffic that leads to oscillate traffic flow frequently is observed on congestion flow. Unexpected reasons such as lane – changing maneuvers, lower speeds of leader vehicle and moving bottleneck cause stop and go traffic and amplifying delay and environment impacts. Stop and go traffic exactly can’t be modeled by traffic models, and also car following models based on kinematic flow ...

Using mobile probes to inform and measure the effectiveness of traffic control strategies on urban networks Urban traffic congestion is a problem that plagues many cities in the United States. Testing strategies to alleviate this congestion is especially challenging due to the difficulty of modeling complex urban traffic networks. However, recent work has shown that these complicated systems ca...

With the advent of wireless technologies, it has been found that using wireless signals for the purpose of vehicular traffic management is the most cost effective process as wireless signature are available across all terrains and it is ubiquitous. As the road space is not expanding in line with the growth of automobiles, traffic congestion is bound to increase on a regular basis. The only way ...

Currently, traffic congestions are common events in road networks of main cities in developing countries. It has been observed that, the size of congestion increases year after year. For traffic congestion management to work efficiently, sufficiently and accurately information are needed. In this research we present an alternative method using agent technology to collect and manipulate data so ...

This paper develops an analytical framework for assessing the second-best optimal level of gasoline taxation taking into account unpriced pollution, congestion, and accident externalities, and interactions with the broader fiscal system. We provide calculations of the optimal taxes for the US and the UK under a wide variety of parameter scenarios, with the gasoline tax substituting for a distor...

PARAMICS is a state-of-the-art, parallel ‘microscopic’ traffic simulator, developed in a collaboration between EPCC and SIAS Ltd., for simulations of traffic congestion in large-scale road networks. Individual vehicle and driver characteristics are modelled, responding to perceived road and junction conditions. To allow traffic planners to predict and attempt to rectify potential congestion pro...

This paper investigates the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium in the Vickrey bottleneck model when each user controls a positive fraction of total traffic. Users simultaneously choose departure schedules for their vehicle fleets. Each user internalizes the congestion cost that each of its vehicles imposes on other vehicles in its fleet. We establish three results. First, a pure strategy N...

Abstract. Anticipatory Vehicle Routing based on Intention Propagation (AVRIP) can help reduce drivers travel times and avoid forming congestion. The route guidance system uses information shared by participating drivers to predict future link traversal times, the time it will take a vehicle to traverse a road at a certain time in the future. Both participating and non-participating drivers bene...

Bike Sharing Systems (BSSs) are widely adopted in major cities of the world due to concerns associated with extensive private vehicle usage, namely, increased carbon emissions, traffic congestion and usage of nonrenewable resources. In a BSS, base stations are strategically placed throughout a city and each station is stocked with a pre-determined number of bikes at the beginning of the day. Cu...