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As a means to relieve traffic congestion, toll pricing has recently received significant attention by transportation planners. Inappropriate use of transportation networks is one of the major causes of network congestion. Toll pricing is a method of traffic management in which traffic flow is guided to proper time and path in order to reduce the total delay in the network. This article investigates a method for solving the minimum toll revenue problem in real and large-scale transportation networks. The objective of this problem is to find link tolls that simultaneously cause users to efficiently use the transportation network and to minimize the total toll revenues to be collected. Although... 

Taking advantage of the attractive features of Hestenes-Stiefel and Dai-Yuan conjugate gradient methods, we suggest two globally convergent hybridizations of these methods following Andrei's approach of hybridizing the conjugate gradient parameters convexly and Powell's approach of nonnegative restriction of the conjugate gradient parameters. In our methods, the hybridization parameter is obtained based on a recently proposed hybrid secant equation. Numerical results demonstrating the efficiency of the proposed methods are reported