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Feng Yu-qin [1] and Leng Jun-qiang [2,3; ] and Xie Zhong-Yu [1] and Zhang Gui-e [3] and He Yi [3]

Academic Editor: Matjaz Perc

, 1, , School of Automobile Engineering, , Heilongjiang Institute of Technology, , Harbin 150050, , China, , hljit.edu.cn,

, 2, , School of Management, , Harbin Institute of Technology, , Harbin 150001, , China, , hit.edu.cn,

, 3, , School of Automobile Engineering, , Harbin Institute of Technology, , Weihai 264209, , China, , hit.edu.cn,

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1. Introduction

How to reduce exhaust emission has become a very urgent subject as the number of automobile grows rapidly in China. At the moment, research on energy saving and emission reduction about the vehicle itself has been relatively mature, while few studies were conducted concerning this problem from the perspective of traffic management. The influence of emission factors on travelers’ behavior of route choice will be studied in this paper from the aspect of traffic management, which can provide information about vehicle emission for traffic managers in order to decrease energy consumption and emission to some extent.

Travel time cost and fuel consumption are usually considered in travel cost estimation [1–3]. However, in general, former route choice models only took travel time cost into consideration. The researches on the relationship between route choice model and exhaust emission are few [4, 5]. And there is only information about route length and travel time in the traffic guidance system and no other valuable information concerning emission. Travel cost was usually described using travel time which was presented by the BPR function.

There are some route choice models of travelers such as stochastic user equilibrium model and elastic demand equilibrium model [6]. As the prisoner’s dilemma games and its extensions have been studied frequently [7–10], the paly game is also used in the traffic distribution [11]. However, their BPR functions do not well reflect different demands of travelers in choosing routes, because emission has gradually become a factor affecting route choice. And trip demand objectives are not single and are often mutually contradictory, for example, shorter travel...

 

  

     

  

  

         
 
 
 
 

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