Dear Colleague,
There will be an international symposium on "The theory and practice of
congestion charging", with the emphasis on the theory, at Imperial College
London from 18 to 20 August (the week following IATBR). The symposium,
dedicated to the late Professor Peter Hills who devoted the latter part of
his professional life to the subject (see www.ncl.ac.uk/torg), consists of
two days of presentations followed by a technical tour. The event is free
but the number of spaces is limited by the size of the lecture hall. If you
wish to attend, please send your name and contact details to
[log in to unmask] by the 30th of June. We will inform those of you
interested in attending whether or not there is sufficient space by the
first week of July. The programme, also to be found on
http://www.cts.cv.ic.ac.uk/html/MeetingsAndConferences/MeetingsAndConference
s.asp, is given below:
Theory and practice of congestion charging
18th - 20th August 2003
Imperial College London
DAY 1
9:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-11:00 Plenary session
John Perkins, Principal, Faculty of Engineering: Welcome
Mike Bell: Introduction
Keynote Speech from Transport for London
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-1:00 Session 1: Current Road Pricing Practice and Policy (1)
Chair:
Phil Blythe. Congestion charging: Evolving UK policy and technical options
Stephen Glaister. Pricing the nation's roads
Mike Goodwin. Congestion charging policy in the UK
Mike Meyer. An Implementation Perspective on Congestion Pricing from the
U.S.: How Optimal is the Optimal Toll If You Can't Charge It?
Peter Stopher. Cars, Congestion, Public Transport, and Pricing: A Reality
Check
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:45 Session 2: Road Pricing and Travel Behaviour
Takamasa Akiyama. Impact analysis of road pricing by travel behaviour model
with fuzzy logic
Yasuo Asakura. An innovative data collection methodology for analyzing
travel behavior under congestion pricing
Ken Small. Valuing Time and Reliability: Assessing the Evidence from Road
Pricing Demonstrations (with David Brownstone)
Yasunori Iida. Travel choice behavior under road pricing
Robin Lindsey. Congestion pricing on networks with heterogeneous users
3:45-4:00 Coffee
4:00-5:45 Session 3: Road Pricing and Network Equilibrium
Hai Yang. Trial-and-Error Implementation of Marginal-Cost Pricing on
Networks with Unknown Demand Functions
Mike Smith. A whole-town microsimulation comparison of cordon and delay
pricing and an ideal transport model very suited to finding optimal road
prices and signal controls
Don Hearn. On Second Best Toll Pricing
Haijun Huang. The multiclass, multicriteria system optimum and user
equilibrium problem
Guido Gentile. Advanced pricing and rationing policies for large scale
multi-modal networks
6:00-7:00 Reception
7:00 Dinner
DAY 2
9:00 - 10:45 Session 4: Current Road Pricing Practice and Policy (2)
Tim Hau. Current thinking of road pricing in Hong Kong
Phil Goodwin. Policy complementarity and the wider economic effects of
traffic restraint by charging and other methods
Terje Tretvik. Traffic impacts and acceptability of the Bergen, Oslo and
Trondheim toll rings
Bob Noland. Congestion charging and road safety
Peter Jones. User acceptance of congestion charges
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Session 5: Optimal Pricing
Chair:
Tony May. Identifying optimal locations for road pricing cordons
Se-il Mun. Optimal Cordon Pricing
William Lam. Optimal tunnel tolls
Wafaa Saleh. Technical optimality of congestion pricing
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:45 Session 6: Implementation Issues
Piotr Olsewski. Modelling the effects of road pricing in Singapore
Washington Ochieng. Future for satellite-based charging systems
S C Wong. Congestion charging and taxis
David Hensher. Charging for road use: do we get the cash revenues right?
Neil Paulley. Modelling road pricing: issues and methods for practitioners
3:45-4:00 Coffee
4:00-5:30 Session 7: Bottleneck Congestion Pricing and Departure Time Choice
Chair:
Andre de Palma. Road pricing with departure time choices: preliminary
simulation results for the Paris area
John Polak. The Scheduling of Commuter Tours in Congested Networks with
Pricing
Takamasa Iryo. A theoretical study for the relationship between individual
variation on schedule constraint and peak-load pricing scheme
Kara Kockelman. Credit-Based Congestion Pricing: A Policy Proposal and the
Public's Response
6:00-7:00 Reception
7:00 Dinner
DAY 3
9:00-10:45 Session 8: Speed-flow Relations and Traffic Congestion Analysis
Chair:
Richard Arnott. Congestion pricing and urban spatial structure
David Levinson. Micro foundations of congestion and congestion pricing
Michael Z F Li. Congestion Pricing Implementation and Its Connection with
Speed-Flow Relationships
David Newbery. Cordon tolls in eight English towns: theory, simulation and
impacts
Erik Verhoef. Instantaneous vs dynamic speed-flow relations and the economic
analysis of traffic congestion: theory and empirical analyses
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:15 Session 9: Information and Traffic Management
Kiyoshi Kobayashi. The informational impacts of congestion tolls upon route
traffic demands
Michael Patriksson. Traffic management through congestion pricing
Hong Lo. Dynamic traffic assignment and toll charge
12:15-2:00 Lunch and closing comments from Mike Bell
2:00 Depart for Technical Tour
Best regards, Mike
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Michael G H Bell
Professor of Transport Operations
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Imperial College, Imperial College Road,
London, SW7 2AZ
Tel: 0207 594 6091 Fax: 0207 594 6102
Email: [log in to unmask]
More: http://www.cts.cv.ic.ac.uk/
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