Optimized Feedback-based Traffic Congestion Pricing and Control for Improved Return on Investment (ROI)

Obari Johnson, Sikiru Humble Tajudeen, Muhammed Bashir Mu’azu, Salawudeen Ahmed Tijani

Abstract


Traffic congestion is a serious problem in any developing society. One of the approaches used in addressing this problem is congestion pricing. In this paper, the effects of social behavior on congestion pricing and control were considered and a scenario of a 1 x 2 traffic tolling system is used. Also, this work considers the rate of return on investment (RoI) of toll facilities in order to justify the worthiness of the design to investors. In earlier works on feedback-based traffic congestion pricing, the traffic parameters in the logit expression were selected arbitrarily and this made it difficult for traffic designers to arrive at optimum parameters within a reasonable amount of time. In order to address this challenge, the traffic parameter problem is formulated into a traffic congestion control optimization problem whose goal is to maximize the congestion price. The constraints are boundaries for the traffic parameters and the investment boundary conditions. The fitness of the formulated optimization problem was determined using genetic algorithm (GA). A number of simulations were performed by considering different multiplication factors and results were obtained for each multiplication factor (m.f). The simulation results justify the exactness of the formulated optimization problem and the superior performance of this work over the one that involves manually selection of traffic parameters.

Keywords


Congestion pricing; Annuity; Flat toll; Cross elasticity of toll; ROI; logit model; Genetic Algorithm

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