The Analysis About The Effect Of Congestion Charges On The Choices Of Residents’ Travel Modes

Since our country’s reformation and opening up, economic development made a spurt of progress.At the same time, the population of city grew very fastly. Surplus rural labor was transferred to city.The expansion of population brougt the city a a mount of traffic demand.The number of cars in city rose quickly, making traffic conditions worsen day by day. Traffic jam became a general phenomenon. Congestion charges as one of the effective measures of traffic demand management, can produce an important effect in alleviating city’s traffic conditions.From the individual perspective, the paper introduced the defination and causes of traffic congestion theoretically, explained importance of congestion charges in traffic demand management. Then introduced the MNL model that is important in the paper analysed the effect of congestion charges on residents’choices in travel modes. Finally, taking Beijing as an example, illustrated at the different levels of congestion charges, the travel sharing ratio between car and public transportation was different.The paper combines theoretical analysis and model analysis with empirical analysis,as well as qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis.The main innovation is introducing the congestion charges how impact residents’choices in travel modes and forecasting the traffic sharing ratio between car and public transportation under different levels of congestion charges.