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Trans. Planning Journal
| Title | Lane Allocation and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Highway Electronic Toll Collection System |
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| Author | Shyue-Koong Chang, Chen-Hsiu Laih, Ching-Tsyr Wu |
| Summary | This paper develops an analysis framework, which is based on various road users’ choice behaviors, to evaluate cost-benefit on the highway electronic toll collection (ETC) system. The analysis framework also helps to determine the appropriate number of ETC lanes in a toll plaza. In addition, the equilibrium number of vehicles utilizing the ETC lanes can also be investigated. In general, road users choose to use the ETC lanes to shorten the delay time spent getting through the toll plaza. However, based on the numerical example proposed in this paper, approximately 13.95% of the ETC equipped vehicles used the manual charge lanes when the ETC lanes have become crowded. This result implies that analysis on lane arrangement in toll plaza is quite crucial for planning ETC system. Compared to the 5 manual charge lanes, this paper has also found that 4A1M (4 Automatic ETC VI lanes & 1 manual charge lane) is the optimal lane allocation under the condition of the permanent traffic flow, lanes numbers and tools. |
| Vol. | 33 |
| No. | 1 |
| Page | 29 |
| Year | 2004 |
| Month | 3 |
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