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A Fair and Efficient Bottleneck Congestion Management with CARMA

Cenedese, Carlo
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Elokda, Ezzat
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Zhang, Kenan  
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June 24, 2025
2025 European Control Conference (ECC)
2025 European Control Conference (ECC)

This talk demonstrates the use of CARMA (=karma for cars) as a fair solution to the morning commute congestion. We consider heterogeneous commuters traveling through a single bottleneck that differ in the value of time (VOT), generalizing the notion of VOT to vary dynamically on each day (e.g., according to trip purpose and urgency) rather than being a static characteristic of each individual. In our CARMA scheme, the bottleneck is divided into a fast lane that is kept in free flow and a slow lane that is subject to congestion. Commuters use karma to bid for access to the fast lane, and those who get outbid or do not participate in the scheme instead use the slow lane. At the end of each day, karma collected from the bidders is redistributed, and the process repeats day by day. We specialize the karma economy mean-field game model to this setting and analyze pthe roperties of its mean-field equilibrium. Unlike existing monetary schemes, CARMA is demonstrated to achieve (a) an equitable traffic assignment with respect to heterogeneous income classes and (b) a strong Pareto improvement in the long-term average travel disutility with respect to no policy intervention. Moreover, CARMA can retain the same congestion reduction as an optimal monetary tolling scheme under uniform karma redistribution and even outperforms tolling under a well-designed redistribution scheme.

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DOI
10.23919/ecc65951.2025.11186957
Author(s)
Cenedese, Carlo
Elokda, Ezzat
Zhang, Kenan  

EPFL

Dörfler, Florian
Frazzoli, Emilio
Lygeros, John
Date Issued

2025-06-24

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
2025 European Control Conference (ECC)
DOI of the book
https://doi.org/10.23919/ECC65951.2025
Start page

757

End page

757

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2025 European Control Conference (ECC)

ECC 2025

Thessaloniki, Greece

2025-06-24 - 2025-06-27

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National Science Foundation

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October 16, 2025
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