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CTS Events
SEMINAR
November 14, 2012 Dr. Nebiyou Tilahun, UPP, presents a seminar entitled "An agent based model of origin destination estimation (ADOBE)" Wednesday, November 14th at 4:00 pm in Rm 1127 SEO
SEMINAR
November 7, 2012 Mr. Thomas Murtha, CMAP, will address the CTS-IGERT community at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1127 SEO.
SEMINAR
October 24, 2012 Please join us in welcoming Dr. Bo Zou, CME, on Wednesday, October 24th, Room 1127 SEO, 4:00 p.m.
CTS Happenings
September 25, 2012
Award Received by Joshua Auld, CTS-IGERT alumnus.
April 20, 2012
Congratulations to James Biagioni, CTS Fellow and CS PhD candidate, winner of the Dean's Scholar award.
January 2, 2012
James Biagioni, CTS Fellow, receives "Best Presentation Award" at SenSys2011
July 30, 2010
Dr. Ouri Wolfson, Dr. Phillip Yu, and Leon Stenneth, CS student and CTS Associate, recently had a paper accepted to the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2010).
August 30, 2010
Mahmoud Javanmardi, CTS Fellow and CME PhD candidate, will present a seminar on Monday, August 30th at 4:00 p.m. in Room 1000 SEO entitled "Congestion Pricing". Marginal cost pricing has been long advocated as an efficient way of distributing scarce road resources. In practice, however, policy makers have to retreat to second-best pricing schemes that are associated with lower transaction costs and are simpler for potential users to understand than the first-best marginal cost tolls. To date, the majority of practical applications and theoretical models in Europe and Asia are represented by cordon or area pricing mechanisms, while in North America, variations of link-based tolls have become dominant. This paper compares welfare effects of two second-best cordon pricing schemes with those of second best link-based tolls for the Washington, D.C., transportation network. START, a strategic and regional transport planning model that features elastic travel demands as well as mode, time period, and route choice, is used to analyze the impacts of the two pricing approaches. Distributional effects of cordon and link-based tolls are also examined in the hope of understanding why one scheme might be preferred over another. Because Washington, D.C., in many respects resembles a European city, cordon policies are more likely to be effective there than in more typical North American cities. Although overall net welfare benefits achieved by the three schemes are found to be similar, their dependence on revenue recycling and distributional impacts are quite different. Although the small cordon puts a higher share of costs on low-income travelers than do other pricing schemes, in absolute terms these costs are lower. The exact distributional impact of a larger cordon is uncertain because it depends on the revenue recycling method employed. In my presentation, I will talk about the congestion pricing concept and then will explain attached paper: "Choosing Congestion Pricing Policy". I will also try to talk about the integration of an activity-based model and dynamic traffic assignment which is one major step in studying congestion pricing using activity based models. Biography: Mahmoud is a second year PhD student in the department of Civil and Materials Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His primary research interests are in the area of travel demand analysis, activity-based modeling approaches. He is currently working on integrating activity based model and dynamic traffic assignment. His advisers are Dr Mohammadian and Dr. Kawamura. |
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