Ido Klein

The effectiveness of congestion charges and parking prices as monetary disincentives to reduce car traffic and alleviate congestion in highly demanded urban areas is investigated, focusing on Jerusalem's diverse and congested city center. A tailored MATSim agent-based simulation model was used to examine various payment scenarios and assess the con...

Transportation Network Companies (TNC), like Uber, Lyft, and VIA, started their activities a decade ago with a far-reaching hope that Mobility-On-Demand (MOD) transportation services would decelerate or even stop the ever-growing congestion. However, it didn't happen; the negative incentives, like congestion charges and higher parking prices, seem...

By definition, the Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) system integrates transportation modes of very different flexibility - taxis, buses, light rail, ride-hailing. MaaS major unknown is the effectiveness of the ride-sharing modes. We employ a calibrated and validated MATSim multi-modal traffic model of the Jerusalem Metropolitan Area (JMA) to assess the...

הנזק הכולל הנגרם כיום למשק בשל הגודש בכבישים הוערך על ידי גופים שונים בכ 35- מיליארד ₪, והוא צפוי לזנק ל 74- מיליארד ₪ ב 2030- ול 100- מיליארד ₪ ב 2040- . בשל גידול האוכלוסייה והצפי להתרחבות הגודש צפויות להחמיר גם ההשפעות הסביבתיות של ענף התחבורה, ובהן זיהום אוויר, פליטת גזי חממה, מטרדי רעש וקיטוע בתי גידול על ידי תשתיות תחבורה. לשם התמודדות עם שינ...

Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) aim to supply drivers with individually tailored information. User optimal information provision pushes the road network closer to the theoretical state of User Equilibrium (UE) instead of the System Optimum (SO). We investigate the effects on individual route-choice and consequent collective traffic sta...

Traffic congestion threats the growth and vitality of cities. Policy measures like punishments or rewards often fail to create a long term remedy. The rise of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enable provision of travel information through advanced traveler information systems (ATIS). Current ATIS based on shortest path routing might...

System optimum is usually referred to as a theoretical traffic assignment, whose main use is comparison to user equilibrium. In this paper, we investigate an advanced travel information service (ATIS) that provides the travelers system optimal routing signals, so that if all travelers comply with the signal, system optimum is achieved. We present a...

Cooperation is an emergent social state related to the dynamics and complexity of road traffic and is reinforced through adaptive learning. Game theory and research in behavioural economics provide ample evidence that cooperation can efficiently solve social dilemmas similar to traffic congestion in dynamic settings. Traffic theory, asserts User Eq...

Information and communications technologies (ICT) and future and emerging technologies (FET) are expected to revolutionize transportation in the next generation. Travelers? behavioral adaptation is a key to their success. We discuss the notion of managing traffic congestion by enhancing cooperation in road networks enabled with ICT and FET. Coopera...