Collaborative Research: Regulating Hazardous Materials Transportation by Multi-Objective Dual Toll Pricing

合作研究：通过多目标双重收费定价规范危险品运输

• 批准号: 1068866
• 负责人: Young-Jun Son
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1068866&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Regulating; Hazardous; Materials

The objective of this collaborative research is to investigate the potential of multi-objective dual toll pricing as an operational tool to reduce risk from hazardous material (hazmat) transportation. Toll pricing has been used as an efficient and effective control method of vehicles on congested road networks, and, more recently, has emerged as a flexible control method for hazmat trucks. In this research, a multi-objective dual toll pricing approach guides a network flow of selfish users towards a safer and more efficient traffic flow that increases social welfare. The results of this research will advance our operational ability to control and regulate hazmat transportation under various scenarios; in consequence, road networks will become more efficient and safer. This research will reveal how robust and how effective the dual toll pricing framework is in safeguarding the human community from uncertainty and risk of hazmat transportation. When combined with advanced information technology and geographic information systems, the dual toll pricing system will provide a practically powerful tool to control vehicular traffic networks for public safety and efficiency. This will be verified and demonstrated by case studies based on realistic settings in Albany, Mexico City and Montreal. The research outcome will also contribute to the literature of toll pricing theory by broadening the scope of toll pricing to more general settings. In addition, the algorithmic tools and agent-based simulation methods developed in this research will promote computational science, which is a key to understand today's complex social, economical world. This research will provide the transportation and infrastructure engineering communities with the modeling, algorithmic and simulation foundations of dynamic dual toll pricing for hazmat transportation. It will lead to new educational modules and software useful for teaching advanced undergraduate and graduate students how to design, analyze and implement a hazmat transportation system for less congestion and less risk in the infrastructure. It will also provide a basis for communication among policy makers, the general public and hazmat carriers. In addition, since this research will be verified and tested in realistic settings, the results will have high potential for translation to practice. When implemented in practice, the results of this research will bring large economical impacts to other second-hand fields such as RFID, mobile payment systems, advanced geographic information systems and intelligent travelers' information systems. Furthermore, this research has the potential to invoke similar research in studying control methods of hazmat risk arising in seaports, airports and railways, considering both congestion of generic freight/passenger transport and hazmat transport. The developed system will be presented in the summer engineering academy attracting top high school students, especially women and minority, to science and engineering.

这项合作研究的目的是调查潜在的多目标双重收费定价作为一种操作工具，以减少危险材料（hazmat）运输的风险。通行费定价已被用作拥堵道路网络上车辆的高效和有效的控制方法，并且最近已成为危险品卡车的灵活控制方法。在这项研究中，一个多目标的双重收费定价方法引导网络流量的自私用户朝着一个更安全，更有效的交通流量，增加社会福利。这项研究的结果将提高我们在各种情况下控制和规范危险品运输的运营能力;因此，道路网络将变得更加高效和安全。这项研究将揭示双重收费定价框架在保护人类社会免受危险品运输的不确定性和风险方面的稳健性和有效性。结合先进的信息技术和地理信息系统，双重收费系统将提供一个实际的强大工具来控制车辆交通网络，以确保公众安全和效率。这将通过基于奥尔巴尼、墨西哥城和蒙特利尔现实环境的案例研究加以验证和证明。研究成果也将有助于文献的收费定价理论，扩大范围的收费定价更一般的设置。此外，在这项研究中开发的算法工具和基于代理的仿真方法将促进计算科学，这是理解当今复杂的社会，经济世界的关键。本研究将提供运输及基础设施工程界的建模，算法和仿真基础的动态双重收费定价的危险品运输。它将产生新的教育模块和软件，用于教授高级本科生和研究生如何设计，分析和实施危险品运输系统，以减少基础设施的拥堵和风险。它还将为决策者、公众和危险品承运人之间的沟通提供基础。此外，由于本研究将在现实环境中进行验证和测试，因此其结果将具有很高的翻译实践潜力。本研究成果在实际应用中，将对RFID、移动的支付系统、先进的地理信息系统、智能出行者信息系统等二手领域产生巨大的经济影响。 此外，这项研究有可能调用类似的研究在海港，机场和铁路所产生的危险品风险的控制方法，考虑到通用货运/客运和危险品运输的拥挤。开发的系统将在夏季工程学院展示，吸引顶尖的高中生，特别是妇女和少数民族，学习科学和工程。