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This paper addresses the design issue of sustainable cordon toll pricing schemes in a monocentric city. An analytical model that maximizes the total social welfare of urban system is first proposed for simultaneous optimization of the cordon toll location and charge level. The solution properties of the model with/without considering traffic congestion and/or environmental effects are explored and compared analytically. The proposed model is then extended to explicitly incorporate the effects of subsidizing the retrofit of old vehicles on reduction in average vehicle emissions. The optimal subsidy scheme for maximizing the social welfare of the system is also determined. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the model applications. Insightful findings are reported on the interrelationships among cordon toll scheme, traffic congestion and environmental effects, urban population distribution, and subsidy scheme as well as their implications in practice.
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The authors would like to thank the guest editor, Dr. W.Y. Szeto, and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of the paper. The work described in this paper was jointly supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71171013, 71222107), the Research Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation (China) (200963), the Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China (20120142110044), the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (132015), the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (PolyU 5196/10E), the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (NRF-2011-0000446), and the Center for Modern Information Management Research at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
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Appendix A: Derivation of Equation (26)
Appendix A: Derivation of Equation (26)
Substituting Eq. (25) into Eq. (4), one obtains
With the assumption that the traffic congestion effects can be ignored (i.e. t( ⋅ ) = t 0), from Eqs. (13)–(15), the air pollution cost can be expressed as
where ξ is a constant, which is given by
As u(x) does not contain x m , q i (x) (i = 1, 2) does not also contain x m in terms of Eqs. (2) and (3). Therefore, we have
Substituting (A.4) into (23), we have
As πα p τx m m(x m ) > 0 always holds, we obtain
This means that \( \tau =2\widehat{C}\left({x}_m\right) \) holds.
On the other hand, as u(x) does not contain τ, from Eq. (2) we have
When the traffic congestion effects can be ignored, we have \( \frac{\partial \widehat{C}(x)}{\partial {q}_i(x)}=0 \) in terms of Eq. (A.2). Therefore, from Eq. (24), we have
Substituting Eqs. (1), (A.2) and (A.6) into Eq. (A.8), we have
Equation (A.9) can further be written as
where ω 3, ω 2, ω 1, and ω 0 can be given by Eq. (27). This completes the derivation of Eq. (26).
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Li, ZC., Wang, YD., Lam, W.H.K. et al. Design of Sustainable Cordon Toll Pricing Schemes in a Monocentric City. Netw Spat Econ 14, 133–158 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-013-9209-3
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