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The toll plaza optimization problem: Design, operations, and strategies

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This paper presents comprehensive decision-making procedures for designing a new toll plaza with the right initial capacity, then finding the optimal dynamic lane configuration for operations, evaluating the effects of increasing future traffic volume on waiting time by sensitivity analysis, and establishing a long-term quantitative strategy by transferring low-throughput lane users to high-throughput lanes. We develop a non-linear integer programming model integrated with the M/G/1 queueing process. A case study based on actual data demonstrates how effective the model and the strategy are in reducing operating and user-waiting costs and, thus, improving overall system performance at toll plazas.

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  • Kim, Seongmoon, 2009. "The toll plaza optimization problem: Design, operations, and strategies," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 45(1), pages 125-137, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transe:v:45:y:2009:i:1:p:125-137
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    1. Partha Chakroborty & Rahul Gill & Pranamesh Chakraborty, 2016. "Analysing queueing at toll plazas using a coupled, multiple-queue, queueing system model: application to toll plaza design," Transportation Planning and Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(7), pages 675-692, October.
    2. Gu, Weihua & Cassidy, Michael J. & Li, Yuwei, 2012. "On the capacity of highway checkpoints: Models for unconventional configurations," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 46(10), pages 1308-1321.
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    5. Marina Milenković & Miloš Nikolić & Draženko Glavić, 2022. "Optimization of toll road lane operation: Serbian case study," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 22(5), pages 5297-5322, November.
    6. Yu, Mengqiao & Ding, Yichuan & Lindsey, Robin & Shi, Cong, 2016. "A data-driven approach to manpower planning at U.S.–Canada border crossings," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 34-47.
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    8. Chen, Binbin & Li, Wei, 2022. "Improving highway traffic performance: Merging pattern design of a departure zone after tollbooths or ETC," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 608(P1).

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