抄録
Recently, "Super flexible work hours (SFWH)" is introduced in order to reduce the peak of demand, as one of the transportation demand management measures. However for business activities, the SFWH would decrease temporal agglomeration effect on productivities. Commuters choose their home departure time and work star time considering the trade-off between congestion and income from the production. This study formulates an optimal control problem on the SFWH policies for railway commuting in a metropolitan area. Numerical simulations show that the SFWH policies are still effective in term of utility after subtraction of the loss in temporal agglomeration effect, because they save schedule cost and working tiredness.
