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Establishing Congestion Charges in Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area 

General Description:

•    The project employs an Agent-Based simulation model of urban multimodal traffic. 
•    Urban space is represented explicitly through the high-resolution GIS of the road network, land partition, buildings, and population with all necessary attributes.   
•    Urban travelers - model agents, choose the transportation mode that makes their trips most effective regarding the travel time, convenience (waiting in traffic jams, walking to the public transport stops, waiting there for a bus, transferring between lines), and the cost of the trip, including congestion charges and parking prices. 
•    The model is calibrated based on the mobile phone and smart card data.
•    The variety of congestion charge policies is evaluated concerning their effect on traffic congestion and the possibility of public acceptance. 
•    The simulation analysis is a part of a large transportation planning project led by Dr. Nir Sharav.