2011).Īccordingly, an alternative policy tool, toll-setting policy (TS) which is a more flexible restriction policy for hazmat shipments than the ND policy, was proposed by Marcotte et al. Moreover, only restricting certain road segments sometimes cannot rationally adjust the hazmat flows to areas with less risk (Wang et al. However, the main limitation of the ND policy is not to consider the carriers’ priorities such as a travel cost and wastes the usability of certain road segments. The ND policy is very effective to restrict hazmat traffic from highly dense regular traffic flow. Significant research works have been done in this field to minimize hazmat transportation risk (e.g., Kara and Verter 2004). In the literature, these types of policies are categorized into network-design (ND) policy. Texas Department of Transportation 2009 has a list of prohibited roads for Texas). An example of this is the ban on trucks carrying non-radioactive hazmat on certain road segments (e.g. Hazardous material transportation simulationĬurrently, government agencies in North America and Europe are trying to mitigate risk associated with the hazmat transportation on a road network by separating the hazmat traffic flow from normal traf-fic flow, especially high-density traffic flows. The result reveals the effectiveness of the proposed approach in devising a reli-able policy under the realistic road network conditions. Also, search algorithms in OptQuest are used to determine the optimum dual toll pricing policy which results in the minimum risk and travel cost based on the simulation results.
#Anylogic pricing software
The proposed approach is implemented in AnyLogic agent based simulation software with using a traffic data of Albany, NY. In order to design the dual toll pricing policy on a highly realistic road network environment and detailed human behaviors, an extended Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework is employed to mimic human decision behaviors in great detail.
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It intends to separate the hazmat traffic flow from the regular traffic flow via controlling the dual toll. A dual toll pricing is a conceptual policy in which policy maker imposes toll on both hazardous materials (hazmat) vehicles as well as regular vehicles for using populated road segments to mitigate a risk of hazmat transportation.