Relationship between residential choice and transport system of area-road congestion charging scheme.

In order to explore impact of the area-road congestion charging about the residents' residential location and transportation modes, the satisfaction assessment model was proposed to assess the residential location, and the household consumption remaining model was established by the satisfaction, household income and house prices. Area-road congestion charging regimes were implemented, and the generalized commuting traffic impedance and generalized holiday entertainment traffic impedance were got by different trip purpose travel chain characteristics and the corresponding travel mode of family members. The residence of the largest family remaining was got by the household consumption remaining model. The results indicate that area-road congestion charging regimes don't affect low-income mobile home residential choice. A lower level congestion charging does not affect high-income mobile home residential choice, and a higher levels congestion charging makes high-income families mobile home residential from the suburbs to charging regional-border, and it has no affect when the charging level is high. On weekdays and holidays, there is an optimum point both the regional congestion charging level, and the holidays charging optimum point is higher, so it is conducive to maximize for economic efficiency and social utility when the best charging point is implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]