With the increasing population density and industrial base in New Jersey, highways such as GST or NJ Turnpike experience severe traffic jams at toll plazas during the rush hours. Good designs of these systems can impact significantly to the effective use of the infrastructure, and contribute to increasing standard of living of its residents. We analyze several designs of toll plazas and use it ...

This paper introduces a Travel Demand Management (TDM) model in order to decrease the transportation externalities by affecting on passengers’travel choices. Thus, a bi-objective bi-modal optimization model for road pricing is developed aiming to enhance environmental and social sustainability by considering to minimize the air pollution and maximize the social welfare as its objectives. This m...

We propose a game theoretic model for the spatial distribution of inspectors on a transportation network. The problem is to spread out the controls so as to enforce the payment of a transit toll. We formulate a linear program to find the control distribution which maximizes the expected toll revenue, and a mixed integer program for the problem of minimizing the number of evaders. Furthermore, w...

Insects defend themselves against infectious microorganisms by synthesizing potent antimicrobial peptides. Drosophila has appeared in recent years as a favorable model to study this innate host defense. A genetic analysis of the regulation of the antifungal peptide drosomycin has demonstrated a key role for the transmembrane receptor Toll, which prompted the search for mammalian homologs. Two o...

Under the Markov decision process (MDP) congestion game framework, we study problem of enforcing population distribution constraints on a players with stochastic dynamics and coupled costs. Existing research demonstrates that players’ can be satisfied by tolls. However, computing minimum toll value for constraint satisfaction requires accurate modeling player’s Motivated settings where an cost ...

In transportation planning there can be long lead times to adapt capacity. This paper addresses two questions. First, in a one mode world (say rail or road), what is the optimal capacity choice when faced with uncertain demand, long lead times and congestion. Using a simple analytical model it is shown that when demand is inelastic, it is socially optimal to invest more than if only the expecte...

The Second-Best Toll Pricing (SBTP) problem aims to determine an optimal toll scheme for a given set of links in a transportation network so that traffic can be distributed more efficiently from the system point of view. SBTP can be further categorized as static SBTP or dynamic SBTP (DSBTP), depending on whether traffic dynamics are considered or not. In this paper, we focus on the static SBTP ...

Pekanbaru - Dumai toll road is one of the segments Trans Sumatra roads built by PT Hutama Karya. The connects economic centers in Riau Province, including Dumai-Duri-Kandis-Petapahan-Minas-Pekanbaru. On Pekanbaru-Dumai road, problems with service quality were found. This research has two objectives: to analyze and level satisfaction users assessed from users. second objective formulate referral...

A model is presented for analyzing Pareto-efficient build-operate-transfer toll road contracts. The formulation simultaneously allows maximizing social welfare and private profit when road users vary in their value-of-time (VOT). The failure rate and mean residual functions of the VOT distribution are used to characterize Pareto-efficient solutions. Service quality, measured in terms of the vol...