Information and time-of-usage decisions in the bottleneck model with stochastic capacity and demand

European Economic Review

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 525-548

  Arnott, Richard ^a   De Palma, André ^b   Lindsey, Robin ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UMR 8184   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottlenecks; Congestion; Information; Queueing; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033371727     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(98)00013-0     Document Type: Article

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