Many urban areas and states are facing an increase in population density and the industrial base, creating traffic congestion and jams at toll plazas on major highways during rush hours. This article provides a detailed study and analysis of the performance evaluation of a toll plaza using discrete event simulation modeling. Under a given time-dependent traffic flow and a set of specified model...

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...

Network location models comprise one of the main categories of location models. These models have various applications in regional and urban planning as well as in transportation, distribution, and energy management. In a network location problem, nodes represent demand points and candidate locations to locate the facilities. If the links network is unchangeably determined, the problem will be ...

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...

We study road supply by competing firms between a single origin and destination. In previous studies, firms simultaneously set their tolls and capacities while taking the actions of the others as given in a Nash fashion. Then, under some widely used technical assumptions, firms set a volume/capacity ratio that is socially optimal, and thus the level of travel time or service quality is socially...

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 ...

Complex Traffic Network Modeling & Area-wide Hierarchical Control by Saumya Gupta 〈Dr. Pushkin Kachroo〉, Examination Committee Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Nevada, Las Vegas In this thesis, we present a novel methodology to divide a traffic region into subregions such that in each subregion a Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) can be utilize...