Paramics allows users to utilise toll plazas, high occupancy tolling (HOT), toll bridges, Electronic Toll Collection (ECT), in fact Paramics can be used to employ tolling strategies and facilities in any number of ways. Paramics was recently used to model the facilities at the Massena border point-of-entry between the United States and Canada.
Toll Plazas are easy to model in Paramics using combinations of lane/link based restrictions and user defined driver populations. Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) and manual “stop and pay” options can be intermixed in the same Toll Plaza to evaluate different combinations of facility. To ensure realism and accuracy of results the user has complete control of stop time distributions and drive through speed for ETC facilities.
Modelling HOT scenarios is simple with Paramics. HOT works out of the box for effective use on existing freeway capacities including HOT lanes with complex dynamic demand driven requirements or simple time based schedules. Combined with comprehensive route choice modelling Paramics provides a powerful toolkit for assessing the cost/benefit assessment drivers make when choosing to use or avoid tolled road facilities.