Research On Highway Pricing Strategy Considering The Change Of Traffic Flow

Operating expressway is the main form of toll highway construction in our country at present,among which the issue of toll standard has always been a research hotspot due to its close connection with various stakeholders.Based on the analysis of previous studies,this study attempts to analyze the quantitative relationship between expressway traffic flow and toll standards through logit model and to build a pricing model with the influence of different stakeholders.The main work of this paper is as follows:First of all,according to the formulation process of expressway toll standard in our country,this paper analyzes the pricing objectives and influence methods of the three main stakeholders of the operator,the government and the traveler in the process of determining the toll standard and preliminarily determines the pricing model framework that takes the traveler as the pricing subject to construct the toll revenue objective function and takes the government supervision and the traveler's affordability as the constraint conditions.Secondly,the potential traffic flow of the expressway is divided from the two angles of vehicle type and sensitivity of the charging standard.At the same time,the utility function of travelers including the charging standard of the expressway is constructed.Based on this,the traffic flow is distributed by using logit model and the quantitative relationship between the traffic flow of the expressway and the charging standard is established.Finally,the objective function with the charging standard as independent variable and the toll income as dependent variable is constructed.At the same time,the government and travelers' constraints are set up by using the improved maximum price control model and analogy method respectively.The pricing model and pricing strategy of the expressway charging standard are obtained.based on Jiaxing-Hangzhou traffic network,an example is analyzed.