Dynamic bi-level optimal toll design approach for dynamic traffic networks

Road pricing is a controversial topic that is gaining attention from society. Pricing is generally seen as a promising approach to help solve today's transport problems. The main result of this paper is the development and application of a design tool (including the developed travel choice models) for optimizing the system-up (levels of tolls to be levied) of different road pricing regimes in dynamic traffic networks. Moreover, the author extended a number of notions with respect to tolling to the situation of time-varying tolls that are applied in dynamic traffic networks with dynamic travel demand. This refers to possible policy objectives, road pricing regimes, and road pricing measures. The paper shows that there is an optimal pattern of tolls that optimizes the given objective function from the road authority.