Kim, Seong Moon. The toll plaza optimization problem: Design, operations, and strategies Transportation Research Part E-Logistics And Transportation Review 45 : 125~137
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This paper presents comprehensive decision-making procedures for designing a new toll plaza with the right initial capacity, then finding the optimal dynamic lane configuration for operations. evaluating the effects of increasing future traffic volume on waiting time by sensitivity analysis, and establishing along-term quantitative strategy by transferring low-throughput lane users to high-throughput lanes. We develop a non-linear integer programming model integrated with the M/G/1 queueing process. A case study based on actual data demonstrates how effective the model and the strategy are in reducing operating and user-waiting costs and, thus, improving overall system performance at toll plazas. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.