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Robust congestion pricing under boundedly rational user equilibrium

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  • Lou, Yingyan
  • Yin, Yafeng
  • Lawphongpanich, Siriphong

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This paper investigates congestion pricing strategies in static networks with boundedly rational route choice behavior. Under such behavior, users do not necessarily choose a shortest or cheapest route when doing so does not reduce their travel times by a significant amount. A general path-based definition and a more restrictive link-based representation of boundedly rational user equilibrium (BRUE) are presented. The set of BRUE flow distributions is generally non-convex and non-empty. The problems of finding best- and worst-case BRUE flow distributions are formulated and solved as mathematical programs with complementarity constraints. Because alternative tolled BRUE flow distributions exist, our congestion pricing models seek a toll vector or pattern that minimizes the system travel time of the worst-case tolled BRUE flow distribution. As formulated, the models are generalized semi-infinite min-max problems and we propose a heuristic algorithm based on penalization and a cutting-plane scheme to solve them. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate key concepts and results.

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  • Lou, Yingyan & Yin, Yafeng & Lawphongpanich, Siriphong, 2010. "Robust congestion pricing under boundedly rational user equilibrium," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 44(1), pages 15-28, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transb:v:44:y:2010:i:1:p:15-28
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