Research Article

Distance-Based Congestion Pricing with Day-to-Day Dynamic Traffic Flow Evolution Process

Table 1

List of notations.

NotationExplanation

The total planning period for one toll pattern.
The number of days after the toll implementation, .
The set of OD pairs.
The set of routes connecting an OD pair .
The travel cost on route connecting OD pair .
The route flows over the entire network, .
The traffic flow on route connecting OD pair .
The travel demands, .
The travel demand connecting OD pair .
The link travel time functions, .
The link flows, .
The travel time function of link .
The traffic flow on link .
if route contains link , and otherwise.
The vertex values, of the piecewise linear toll function.
The lower and upper bound of the distance-based toll.
The toll charge function.
The total number of the intervals in the toll function .
Column vector of the travel distance in a cordon, .
Column vector of the distance-based toll .
Number of the colony size, the employed bees, and the onlookers.
Parameters used in the day-to-day dynamics model.