Auction-based highway reservation system an agent-based simulation study |
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Institution: | 1. School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China; and Key Lab of Complex System Analysis and Management Decision, Ministry of Education, China;2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China |
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Abstract: | Based on previous studies of a highway reservation system, this paper proposed an auction-based implementation, in which the users can bid for the right to use a route during a certain period of time. This paper models the auction system with MATSim using an agent-based simulation technique. The agents adopt their own bidding logic in the auction, and the price converges after around 130 iterations, when the number of users using the reserved highway and the total collected revenue become stable. When the overall demand changes, the collected revenue ranges from 5 to 11 dollars per user, and from 0.7 to 1.5 dollars per mile. The auction system can transfer more consumer surplus to the toll road operators, since it is a personalized tolling mechanism. The users are using the reservation system as insurance of a guaranteed congestion-free travel. The auction-based highway reservation shows great potential as a new traffic management system. |
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Keywords: | Auction Highway reservation Agent-based simulation Managed lane Time value Traffic management |
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