This dissertation focuses on the design of distributed congestion control algorithms for TCP/IP networks that are more powerful by utilizing the theory of Congestion Pricing as a mathematical framework. Currently implemented congestion control algorithms have several drawbacks that lead to sub-optimal usage and unfair distribution of network resources. Further, new applications have significant...

This paper describes the development and implementation of a dynamic congestion pricing scheme, augmented with a game-theoretic evolutionary learning model, into a realistic urban highway in Athens, Greece. The model recognizes several important behavioral features related to the response of users to the congestion pricing strategy. Such features include day-to-day as well as within-day adjustm...

Transport network pricing is a topic of interest to transport planners and users alike. Pricing schemes are a vital traffic management strategy which can be implemented to reduce congestion, among other network externalities. Previous research has explored pricing schemes to achieve a variety of network objectives, including social and environmental concerns. This work introduces a robust strat...

Congestion pricing can potentially reduce congestion by providing incentives for drivers to shift trips to off-peak periods, use less congested routes, or use alternative modes, thereby spreading out demand for available transportation infrastructure. Congestion pricing also has the potential to create other benefits, such as generating revenue to help fund transportation investment. Possible c...

This paper develops congestion theory and congestion pricing theory from its microfoundations, the interaction of two or more vehicles. Using game theory, with a twoplayer game it is shown that the emergence of congestion depends on the players’ relative valuations of early arrival, late arrival, and journey delay. Congestion pricing can be used as a cooperation mechanism to minimize total cost...

Previous studies of road congestion pricing problem assume that transportation networks are managed by a central administrative authority with an objective of improving the performance of the whole network. In practice, a transportation network may be comprised of multiple independent local regions with relative independent objectives. In this paper, we investigate the cooperative and competiti...