scholarly journals Tackling Traffic Congestion with Workplace Parking Levies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2200
Author(s):  
Georgina Santos ◽  
Anna Hagan ◽  
Orla Lenehan
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Active Travel ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Traffic Demand ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Congestion Charging

On the basis of 17 interviews with employers and 272 survey responses from employees, we explore the perceptions of a Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) in Cardiff, with the aim of understanding if a WPL would be an acceptable traffic demand management policy to tackle traffic congestion. We find that employers would not be very supportive of a WPL, whilst employees would, provided employers were to absorb the costs. Despite this support, the majority of those who drive to work would not be prepared to change mode. An important theme throughout the study was the perception of public transport and active travel provision in Cardiff being inadequate. Most study participants felt that investment in public transport and active travel is needed before a WPL is introduced. We conclude that, although a WPL would not be overwhelmingly acceptable to employers and employees, it would be more acceptable than congestion charging, and there is a possibility that acceptability could be increased with the help of feedback from a public consultation.

Research on the Urban Transportation Development in Our Country Based on the Traffic Congestion Pricing

2011 ◽  
Vol 97-98 ◽  
pp. 1032-1037
Author(s):  
Wei Kou ◽  
Lin Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Marginal Cost ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Urban Transportation ◽  
Congestion Pricing ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Traffic Demand ◽  
Transportation Development

With the development and realization of industrialization and urbanization in the world, urban traffic volume grows rapidly; many big cities face more and more serious traffic problem. As a mean of traffic demand management, traffic congestion pricing has important significance in theory and practice. Traffic congestion pricing can counteract external diseconomy caused by network congestion, and the price of congestion is tantamount to the difference between social marginal cost and private marginal cost. This paper analyzes the economic theory of congestion pricing. Combined the effect of traffic congestion pricing that implemented in the developed countries, it researches the influence of urban transportation development in our country in the future based on the implementing congestion pricing.

Path Reconstruction of Intelligent Traffic Based on Positive Feedback System

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 3160-3164
Author(s):  
Xue Li Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Feedback System ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Traffic Demand

Traffic congestion are prevalent in worldwide cities. The imbalance between demand and supply of urban traffic is the root cause of this problem. So taking effective measures to regulate traffic demand, and guiding the traffic problems of the supply and demand balance is the best way to solve traffic congestion. This paper improves the TDM measure, and combines with intelligent information platform for the design of a new urban transport demand management adaptability of dynamic traffic data analysis platform. The platform supported by the technology of wireless sensor communications, intelligent terminals, the Internet and cloud computing is facing with the dynamic needs of traffic flow and traffic congestion state to carry out the operations of spatiotemporal data mining, clustering, and track detection, and to apply it into the traffic hot spots, abnormal driving track, traffic congestion trends and traffic flow detection and analysis, which has a good reference value for the improvement of management and service level of traffic intelligent systems.

scholarly journals The Socio-Economic Benefits of Sharing Economy: Colleague-Based Carpooling Service in Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
MyungSik Do ◽  
HoYong Jung
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Economic Cost ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Environmental Cost ◽  
Traffic Demand ◽  
Direct Benefits ◽  
Saving Effect

Carpooling—a concept of shared transportation for addressing traffic issues such as congestion and CO2 emissions—has been actively introduced, especially in developed countries. This study proposes a method to estimate the benefits of introducing carpooling for employees in public agencies that are transferring innovation cities. To overcome the shortcomings of previous carpooling services, a carpooling service for inter-company employees was designed and evaluated in our study. The traffic flow theory was used to estimate the direct benefits to carpooling users and the indirect benefits to express highway drivers. The results indicate that carpooling services have a significant socio-economic cost-saving effect on traffic congestion, environmental cost reduction, and so forth, and will therefore play an important role in traffic demand management.

The Evolution of Public Transport Policy in Hong Kong since 1981

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Zhe Li
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Public Transit ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Transport Services

Counting only the usable land, the population in Hong Kong is as dense as 34,000 people per square kilometer, and it has a highly efficient multi-modal public transport system. According to the experience of Hong Kong public transit system, highly reputable public transport services reveals that the the viability and sustainability of mass transit railways depend very much on accompanying transport policies and land development strategies. The ways to reduce traffic congestion from supply measures to demand management and change the transit mode from vehicle to railway are both based on Hong Kong’s actual situation. Finally this article emphasis on sustainable transport is a great experience which needs research with more in-depth thinking, and the evolution of public transport policy in Hong Kong is a good inspiration for the public transit development in the other great cities in the world.

Influence Analysis of Traffic Demand Management Policy in Beijing Based on FCD

ICCTP 2010 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Cheng Weng ◽  
Xiao-Guang Zhao ◽  
Jin-Yan Lv ◽  
Meng-Jia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Demand Management ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Influence Analysis ◽  
Traffic Demand

scholarly journals Optimization and Comparative Analysis of Traffic Restriction Policy by Jointly Considering Carpool Exemptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7734
Author(s):  
Xueyan Wei ◽  
Weijie Yu ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
De Zhao ◽  
Xuedong Hua
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Demand Model ◽  
Compensatory Mitigation ◽  
Traffic Demand ◽  
The Public ◽  
Restriction Policy

As a countermeasure to urban exhaust pollution and traffic congestion, traffic restriction policy (TRP) and carpooling strategy have been widely introduced throughout the world. However, their effects are largely determined by the rationality of implementing policies, and unreasonable policies make them controversial on the long-term implementation benefits. To more effectively manage traffic demand and maintain the sustainability of transportation system, it is necessary to make optimization for management policy before implementation. In this paper, the elastic demand model and equilibrium assignment model are developed under TRP. Considering the negative impact of the mandatory TRP on the public acceptance, we propose a novel TRP strategy, namely TRP with carpool exemptions (TRP-CE), that is, a proportion of high occupancy vehicles (HOV) are allowed to travel in the restricted district even if their license plate numbers are restricted. Then, a bi-level programming model is proposed to solve the optimal schemes by combining multi purposes of ensuring travel convenience, alleviating traffic congestion, and reducing the exhaust pollution. Finally, a numerical experiment is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed models and make comparative analysis between separate TRP and TRP-CE. The results indicate that TRP-CE has benefits in the following aspects: (1) Carpool exemptions provide an incentive to carpool for travelers by private cars; (2) the public acceptance of TRP is improved by introducing carpool exemptions as a compensatory mitigation strategy for mandatory TRP; (3) the implementation effect of demand management can be well achieved by joint optimization; and (4) there is no need to design and reconstruct HOV lanes for the implementation of TRP-CE, which is convenient for practical application.

scholarly journals Pilot Implementation of Public Transport Priority in the City of Zagreb

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Vujić ◽  
Sadko Mandzuka ◽  
Martin Greguric
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Traffic ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Traffic Demand ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Adaptive Traffic Control ◽  
The City

The problem with traffic congestion is particularly expressed in urban areas where possibilities for physical increment of capacity are limited or impossible. Significant in the approach to solving this problem is the usage of Public Transport (PT) and the implementation of various advanced control measures that can improve the quality of overall public transport system. The main objective of this research is to explore the possibilities of implementation of adaptive traffic control on signalized intersections giving priority to public transport vehicles through urban traffic network in the city of Zagreb. The possibilities of implementing public transport priority (PTP) technique in the city of Zagreb are analyzed because of specific traffic situations on defined corridors (location of stops, distance between intersections, etc.). With proper usage of PTP techniques (e.g. adequate detector positions, good estimation of PT vehicle arrival time at intersection) the total tram travel time can be significantly reduced. The Level of Service at intersection may be approximately retained because cross-street traffic demand was not ignored. According to technological level of traffic control system in the city of Zagreb, global implementation of PTP is not possible. So, for each intersection the PTP algorithm was developed separately, but mutual traffic influence of all intersections on the corridor was considered. The cooperative concept application within urban traffic control is considered as well.

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