Coping with congestion: Understanding the gap between policy assumptions and behavior

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-123

  Salomon, Ilan ^a   Mokhtarian, Patricia L ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE; COPING STRATEGY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORT POLICY;

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; PUBLIC POLICY;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONGESTION; POLICY ASSUMPTIONS;

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 0030615909     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1361-9209(97)00003-5     Document Type: Article

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