Analysis of the time-varying pricing of a bottleneck with elastic demand using optimal control theory

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 425-440

  Yang, Hai ^a   Huang, Hai Jun ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bottleneck model; Optimal control; Time varying pricing; Traffic queuing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL THEORY; ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; QUEUEING THEORY; ROADS AND STREETS; STANDARDS;

ELASTIC TRAFFIC DEMAND; OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY; ROAD BOTTLENECK; TIME VARYING PRICING;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

METHODOLOGY; PLANNING METHOD; ROAD PRICING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORT PLANNING;

EID: 0031277957     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-2615(97)00005-2     Document Type: Article

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