Highway pricing and capacity choice in a road network under a build-operate-transfer scheme

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 207-222

  Yang, Hai ^a   Meng, Qiang ^a  

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

Author keywords

Network design; Network equilibrium; Private highway; Profit; Road pricing; Social welfare

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GRAPH THEORY; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPORTATION CHARGES;

NETWORK DESIGN; NETWORK EQUILIBRIUM; PRIVATE HIGHWAY; ROAD PRICING; SOCIAL WELFARE;

MOTOR TRANSPORTATION;

PRICE DYNAMICS; ROAD PRICING; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 0034080942     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(99)00001-4     Document Type: Article

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