A User-Based Charge and Subsidy Scheme for Single O-D Network Mobility Management

TL;DR

This paper introduces a path guidance system with a user-based charge and subsidy scheme that manages single origin-destination network mobility, ensuring fairness, revenue neutrality, and strategy-proofness.

Contribution

It presents a novel UBCS scheme that incentivizes user participation while maintaining system efficiency and fairness in mobility management.

Findings

UBCS scheme is strategy-proof and revenue-neutral.

The scheme is shown to be equitable and progressive.

Numerical example demonstrates practical effectiveness.

Abstract

We propose a path guidance system with a user-based charge and subsidy (UBCS) scheme for single O-D network mobility management. Users who are willing to join the scheme (subscribers) can submit travel requests along with their VOTs to the system before traveling. Those who are not willing to join (outsiders) only need to submit travel requests to the system. Our system will give all users path guidance from their origins to their destinations, and collect a \emph{path payment} from the UBCS subscribers. Subscribers will be charged or subsided in a way that renders the UBCS strategy-proof, revenue-neutral, and Pareto-improving. A numerical example shows that the UBCS scheme is equitable and progressive.