Economics, Law and Management - Research article Open Access Logo

RESEARCH ON HO CHI MINH CITY CONGESTION PRICING BASEDON SPEED-DENSITY MODEL

Tuan Anh Nguyen 1, *
Zhou Wen-Hui 1
Yu Jian-Jun 1
  1. School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, GuangZhou, China
Correspondence to: Tuan Anh Nguyen, School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, GuangZhou, China. Email: pvphuc@vnuhcm.edu.vn.
Volume & Issue: Vol. 17 No. 3 (2014) | Page No.: 129-139 | DOI: 10.32508/stdj.v17i3.1524
Published: 2014-09-30

Online metrics


Statistics from the website

  • Abstract Views: 2171
  • Galley Views: 2362

Statistics from Dimensions

Copyright The Author(s) 2023. This article is published with open access by Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0) which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. 

Abstract

With the continuous growth of the urban population, traffic congestion has become a major problem in all cities. Congestion charging is in practice an effective tool to solve this problem. In this paper, we use the classical model of Congestion Charging to study the issues of pricingcharges in Ho Chi Minh City. In order to capture the traffic flow, we adopt the Drake speed - density model, which relies on the relationship of speed, density and flow and is further conducted by monitoring the traffic flow. After collecting the base traffic data of Ho Chi Minh City, we analyzed the relationship among speed, density and flow. The result showes that, the model we use performance better in reflecting the actual situation in Ho Chi Minh City than other models. Finally, this paper also numerically shows how much should charge to achieve the expected speed. The corresponding traffic density and flow are given in these examples as well.

Comments