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http://dx.doi.org/10.7470/jkst.2016.34.6.510

The Relationship Between Congestion Pricing and In-vehicle Crowding Level in Public Transport  

YU, Sang-Gyun (Department of Urban and Real Estate Engineering, Daejin University)
BAE, Gi-Mok (Department of Urban and Real Estate Engineering, Daejin University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Transportation / v.34, no.6, 2016 , pp. 510-522 More about this Journal
Abstract
In studies involving public transport, social welfare improvement is simply explained by the increase in public transport demand. However, the increase in the demand for public transport is mostly observed by the change in the frequency of public transport service, and in-vehicle crowding in public transport has not been an object of concern. This study examines and tries to reveal the cause of the changes of the social welfare and in-vehicle crowding of the changing public transport from imposing congestion pricing. We observe that congestion pricing increases in-vehicle crowding in public transport. This predictable phenomenon is more exacerbated in case of not operating bus-only lane. It should be noted that in-vehicle crowding is more increased in suburban, but in First-best toll system it tends to get worse less than it in other congestion pricing systems. We identify that the change of in-vehicle crowding is affected by the change of proximity of the housing to workplace, the number of commuting trips, and unpredictable distortion effect of the congestion charge.
Keywords
congestion pricing; general equilibrium model; in-vehicle crowding; mode choice; public transport;
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