Inside the queue: Hypercongestion and road pricing in a continuous time-continuous place model of traffic congestion

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 531-565

  Verhoef, Erik T ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Congestion; Networks; Road pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242654884     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-1190(03)00078-0     Document Type: Article

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