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Decongestion of Urban Areas with Hotspot Pricing

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    Identificador: imarina:4079700
    Autors:
    Sole-Ribalta, AlbertGomez, SergioArenas, Alex
    Resum:
    The rapid growth of population in urban areas is jeopardizing the mobility and air quality worldwide. One of the most notable problems arising is that of traffic congestion which in turn affects air pollution. With the advent of technologies able to sense real-time data about cities, and its public distribution for analysis, we are in place to forecast scenarios valuable to ameliorate and control congestion. Here, we analyze a local congestion pricing scheme, hotspot pricing, that surcharges vehicles traversing congested junctions. The proposed tax is computed from the estimation of the evolution of congestion at local level, and the expected response of users to the tax (elasticity). Results on cities' road networks, considering real-traffic data, show that the proposed hotspot pricing scheme would be more effective than current mechanisms to decongest urban areas, and paves the way towards sustainable congestion in urban areas.
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    Autor segons l'article: Sole-Ribalta, Albert; Gomez, Sergio; Arenas, Alex
    Departament: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
    Autor/s de la URV: Arenas Moreno, Alejandro / Gómez Jiménez, Sergio / Solé Ribalta, Albert
    Resum: The rapid growth of population in urban areas is jeopardizing the mobility and air quality worldwide. One of the most notable problems arising is that of traffic congestion which in turn affects air pollution. With the advent of technologies able to sense real-time data about cities, and its public distribution for analysis, we are in place to forecast scenarios valuable to ameliorate and control congestion. Here, we analyze a local congestion pricing scheme, hotspot pricing, that surcharges vehicles traversing congested junctions. The proposed tax is computed from the estimation of the evolution of congestion at local level, and the expected response of users to the tax (elasticity). Results on cities' road networks, considering real-traffic data, show that the proposed hotspot pricing scheme would be more effective than current mechanisms to decongest urban areas, and paves the way towards sustainable congestion in urban areas.
    Àrees temàtiques: Transportation science & technology Software Operations research & management science Interdisciplinar Engenharias iii Engenharias i Computer networks and communications Artificial intelligence
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: albert.sole@urv.cat sergio.gomez@urv.cat alexandre.arenas@urv.cat
    Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0002-2953-5338 0000-0003-1820-0062 0000-0003-0937-0334
    Data d'alta del registre: 2024-09-28
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
    Enllaç font original: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11067-017-9349-y
    URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Referència a l'article segons font original: Networks & Spatial Economics. 18 (1): 33-50
    Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Sole-Ribalta, Albert; Gomez, Sergio; Arenas, Alex (2018). Decongestion of Urban Areas with Hotspot Pricing. Networks & Spatial Economics, 18(1), 33-50. DOI: 10.1007/s11067-017-9349-y
    DOI de l'article: 10.1007/s11067-017-9349-y
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2018
    Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications
  • Paraules clau:

    Artificial Intelligence,Computer Networks and Communications,Operations Research & Management Science,Software,Transportation Science & Technology
    Transportation science & technology
    Software
    Operations research & management science
    Interdisciplinar
    Engenharias iii
    Engenharias i
    Computer networks and communications
    Artificial intelligence
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