Analysis on Game Theory in Traffic Congestion

As both the urbanization and motorization promoted rapidly in our city, the phenomenon of traffic jams in our big cities were serious than ever before. In order to help the government find out a kind of better economic means to solve traffic jams, this paper used the method of game to analyze the government and passengers, studied on the behaviors of the passengers on adopting collecting the traffic jams tax or giving bus subsidy or both methods adopt at the same time, got the conclusion that the essence of government adopting economic policy to solve traffic jams is to guide private car turn to public transportation. On this foundation, this paper put forward that adopting both collecting the traffic jams tax and giving subsidy have a better effect. At the same time the traffic jams tax should be limited in a reasonable range. The conclusion of this paper could provide the basis to solve the traffic jams in the big cities.