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Spatiotemporal pricing of curb space for improving operator and user utilities

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  • Lim, Jisoon
  • Masoud, Neda

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The evolving transportation system has intensified the demand for diverse uses of curb space in urban areas, emphasizing the critical need for effective curb space management. In this paper, we discuss a spatiotemporal pricing strategy for curb infrastructure designed to enhance the utility for both curb space operator and user groups. We introduce a Stackelberg game model for curb space stakeholders, illustrating how curb space operations can accommodate varying curb space activities and their demand levels across different zones through spatiotemporal pricing. We formulate this game as a mathematical program with complementarity constraints (MPCC) and solve it using Lagrangian relaxation. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of spatiotemporal pricing schemes in improving the game equilibrium. We further explore incorporating practical considerations into the game model to capture the intricacies of curb space user characteristics and to ensure that spatiotemporal pricing schemes can effectively incentivize all curb space stakeholders.

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  • Lim, Jisoon & Masoud, Neda, 2026. "Spatiotemporal pricing of curb space for improving operator and user utilities," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 206(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transb:v:206:y:2026:i:c:s0191261526000378
    DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2026.103425
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