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SUMMARY:Congestion Pricing for Tel-Aviv: Scheme\, Advanced SP Survey and M
 odels\, and Scenario Analysis using various regional models
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DESCRIPTION:​Yoram Shiftan is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Eng
 ineering at the Technion\, and the Joseph Meyerhoff Chair in Urban and Reg
 ional Planning.  He specializes in travel behavior\, transport policy\, a
 nd transport project evaluation.  He established and for the last five ye
 ars was the head of the Israeli Center for Smart Transportation Research\,
  the past editor of Transport Policy\, and the past chair of the Internati
 onal Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR).  He has 35 years of
  experience in both academic and practical work in travel behavior and tra
 vel demand model estimation for major metropolitan areas such as San Franc
 isco\, Los Angeles\, New York\, and Tel-Aviv\, and was one of the main con
 tributors to the development of Activity-Based Models.  In recent years\,
  his research has focused on the activity and travel behavior implications
  of driverless cars\, new mobility services\, and their potential impact o
 n our cities.  Professor Shiftan also has vast experience in the evaluati
 on and decision-making process of major transportation investments both in
  Israel and the US\, currently consulting the Israel Government on the cos
 t-benefit analysis of the Tel-Aviv metro system\, an estimated investment 
 of over 40 billion USD.  Prof. Shiftan received his Ph.D. from MIT\, has 
 published over a hundred refereed papers\, and co-edited five books.  Ove
 rall\, he spent 4.5 years as a visiting professor at leading universities 
 in Europe and the US: George Mason\, VA.\, University of Michigan\, Ohio S
 tate University\, ETH Zurich\, University of Illinois\, Chicago\, and Nort
 hwestern\, IL\, and currently he is on Sabbatical at ETH Zurich again.  
  \nThe Tel-Aviv Metropolitan Area (TAMA) is one of the most congested met
 ropolitan areas in the world (21st most congested area according to Tom-To
 m).  Accordingly\, the government of Israel has passed legislation to app
 ly congestion pricing in the TAMA and a tender to implement it by 2027 inc
 luding planning\, construction\, operation\, and maintenance.\n\nThe conge
 stion scheme includes three rings around the city of Tel Aviv and provides
  the ability to charge according to the distance traveled in the congestio
 n area but is relatively simple to implement and to be understood by drive
 rs.  This presentation summarizes the work done for the Israel Government
  to recommend the optimal congestion scheme to reduce congestion and impro
 ve accessibility.\n\nThe methodology consists of two main sets of tools: 1
 ) an advanced choice-based conjoint (CBC) survey and discrete choice model
 s and 2) two high-resolution transportation models that represent the dyna
 mics of travelers' adaptation to the varying traffic conditions and charge
 s in space and time. \n\nTo enable representative of many alternative tra
 vel modes\, the SP was designed as a serious of conditional probability ch
 oices presented in a sequence of choice sets asking for the preferred mode
  among 14 alternative travel modes. The survey was distributed among 3900 
 respondents each responding to four choice scenarios\, each consisting of 
 four sub-choices\, to a total of 3900*16 choices.  The data were used to 
 estimate a scaled multinomial logit model\, applied as a nested structure 
 according to the choice process.\n\nTo obtain a robust estimate of the imp
 act of the toll we use two different regionals models and compare their re
 sults.  The first model is the Tel-Aviv Activity-Based Model\, and the se
 cond one is a MATSim based multi-agent transport simulation. The newly est
 imated SP-model was integrated into these two regional models to enhance b
 ehavioral realism regarding travelers’ responses to congestion pricing.
  \n\nVarious scenarios were developed and tested\, including various cong
 estion pricing schemes\, such as all-day charges\, different numbers and s
 hapes of the rings\, and dynamic charging.  These scenarios were used to 
 develop congestion pricing application recommendations.\n\nWith Yuval Shif
 tan\, Nir Sharav\, Moshe Ben-Akiva\, Shari Gershenfeld\, Fang Zhao\, Aleks
 ey Ogulenko\, Itzhak Benenson\, Amneh Nassar\, and Hend Manasra\n\n 
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