A Hybrid High-occupancy Regulation Policy for Highway Congested Sections

• Main Authors: Ping-Hsun Su, 蘇品熏
• Other Authors: Chih-Peng Chu
• Format: Others
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6mp4mz

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 運籌管理研究所 === 100 === Most of countries have a common problem, traffic congestion. It usually occurs during peak traffic hours, holiday seasons and is hard to avoid. The Government has established policies like Ramp Metering System, High-Occupancy Vehicle Lane, HOV and differential pricing to aid in solving the problem. Further, Taiwanese government have begun construction plans of “National Freeway No.1- Wugu to Yangmei” to increase the traffic capacity between Wugu and Yangmei. Recently, western countries have implemented policies such as (High-Occupancy Vehicle Lane, HOV) and (High-Occupancy Toll Lane, HOT). The concept of HOV is to transfer the remaining capacity to the LOVs. This research has used Nested Logit model to simulate different conditions in each policy. We have simulated HOV and HOT policies to focus on traffic volume, the percentage of occupancy and original-destination distribution. In our case, customers’ choice behavior is based on the minimal cost principal and is implemented according to minimal society cost policy. Based on our result, we find that the Three-occupancy-plus (3+) is not applicable in this network. However, on the other hand with the Two-occupancy-plus (2+) policy, road users would accept the condition which is to pay the toll fee of $NTD 10, this also increases the chances of utilizing HOT policy with optimal carpooling cost between $NTD 25 and $NTD 40.