Beyond links
The power of path incentives in alleviating congestion and emissions in urban networks
Ramin Niroumand (Aalto University)
Shaghayegh Vosough (Aalto University)
M. Rinaldi (TU Delft - Traffic Systems Engineering)
Richard Connors (University of Luxembourg)
Claudio Roncoli (Aalto University)
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Abstract
This study investigates the potential of link-and path-based incentives to mitigate congestion and reduce emissions in urban transportation networks. Both incentive schemes are formulated as non-linear optimisation problems with complementarity constraints. Mathematically, it is demonstrated that the feasible region of the link-based model is a subset of the feasible region of the path-based model. Consequently, path-based incentives exhibit a higher potential in pushing the user equilibrium flow pattern toward system optimum, compared to link incentives. A column generation-based iterative solution technique, which generates new paths at each iteration, is devised to efficiently solve both optimisation problems. The numerical results in the Sioux Falls network also highlight the superiority of path-based incentives in reducing total travel time and emissions in urban transportation networks.