To develop a refined traffic diversion scheme for expressway reconstruction and expansion, this study establishes generalized link impedance functions for cars and trucks, considering their differences in road travel time, time value, and toll costs. Subsequently, a traffic diversion model is constructed based on user equilibrium theory, taking the heterogeneity between cars and trucks into consideration. A path-based solution algorithm using the method of successive averages is designed to solve the model. To evaluate the environmental impact of the traffic diversion, a vehicle exhaust emission (including CO2, CO, HC, and NOx) estimation method based on the COPERT model is proposed. The results of a case study show that the optimized traffic diversion scheme significantly reduces the average V/C ratio while increasing the average velocity of both cars and trucks on the reconstructed links, without substantially compromising the traffic efficiency of other links. Additionally, the diversion scheme reduces the exhaust pollutant emissions, but increases the CO2 emissions within the network. The findings justify the effectiveness of the traffic diversion approach on alleviating the traffic congestion on the reconstructed expressway and its mixed impacts on the environment.
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