Abstract

The paper studies the possibilities to design a fair manifold tariff on a long traffic line. If a single tariff is used on a long bus or railway line, passengers travelling long distances are favoured at the expense of those travelling short distances. The fairest approach to tariff is setting an individual tariff for every origin–destination relation of line stops that expresses real travel costs. However, sometimes the individual tariff is too complicated and is therefore replaced by double-, triple- or manifold tariff. This paper shows how to design a manifold tariff in order to minimize unfairness to passengers. Document type: Article

Abstract

We present a shortest-path algorithm for the departure time and speed optimization problem under traffic congestion. The objective of the problem is to determine an optimal schedule for a vehicle visiting a fixed sequence of customer locations to minimize a total cost function encompassing emissions cost and labor cost.We account for the presence of traffic congestion, which limits the vehicle speed during peak hours.We show how to cast this problem as a shortest-path problem by exploiting some structural results of the optimal solution. We illustrate the solution method and discuss some properties of the problem.