TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel Big Data-supported dynamic toll charging system: Impact assessment on Portugal's shadow-toll highways
AU - Figueiras, Paulo
AU - Gonçalves, Diogo
AU - Costa, Ruben
AU - Guerreiro, Guilherme
AU - Georgakis, Panos
AU - Jardim-Gonçalves, Ricardo
N1 - This work was performed under the scope of the Project Multi-source Big Data Fusion Driven Proactivity for Intelligent Mobility, grant agreement number 636160-2, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
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PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Traffic congestion is a huge problem in many countries. It affects not only the inner workings of cities but also the quality of life of the people that endure it. In Portugal, traffic congestion happens mainly on national/urban roads, and this phenomenon has increased since the introduction of the so called shadow-toll systems in highways that were free to use. This work proposes a toll charging system that relies on a novel dynamic congestion charging scheme, supported by state of the art Big Data technologies, in order to shift traffic from national/urban roads to tolled highways, taking into account not only the Quality of Service of the highways and national roads, but also the competitiveness of toll prices for users. This Intelligent Transportation System was tested and validated in a real-world scenario with one of the biggest freight logistics companies in Portugal and with the Portuguese public road infrastructure operator.
AB - Traffic congestion is a huge problem in many countries. It affects not only the inner workings of cities but also the quality of life of the people that endure it. In Portugal, traffic congestion happens mainly on national/urban roads, and this phenomenon has increased since the introduction of the so called shadow-toll systems in highways that were free to use. This work proposes a toll charging system that relies on a novel dynamic congestion charging scheme, supported by state of the art Big Data technologies, in order to shift traffic from national/urban roads to tolled highways, taking into account not only the Quality of Service of the highways and national roads, but also the competitiveness of toll prices for users. This Intelligent Transportation System was tested and validated in a real-world scenario with one of the biggest freight logistics companies in Portugal and with the Portuguese public road infrastructure operator.
KW - Big Data
KW - Dynamic toll charging
KW - Intelligent transportation systems
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cie.2019.06.043
DO - 10.1016/j.cie.2019.06.043
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85067615310
SN - 0360-8352
VL - 135
SP - 476
EP - 491
JO - Computers & Industrial Engineering
JF - Computers & Industrial Engineering
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