Abstract: Planning transport network improvements often involve three parties: network users, private toll road operators, and the government. Each of these parties has distinctive objectives that are often in conflict with each other. This study develops a single-level optimization program to design the network improvements over time and to study the tradeoff among these parties for a range of budget values. Three numerical studies of a small network are provided to illustrate the equity issues among users and among private toll road operators, and the cost-effectiveness of the design from the government perspective. Key Words: continuous network design problem, time-dependent user-equilibrium assignment
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