Optimal Toll Design in Second-Best Link-Based Congestion Pricing

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1857, 2003, Pages 85-92

  Yang, Hai ^a   Zhang, Xiaoning ^a,b  

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

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COSTS; DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY; QUEUEING THEORY; SET THEORY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CONGESTION PRICING; OPTIMAL TOLL DESIGN; QUEUES; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

TOLL HIGHWAYS;

EID: 2142697234     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1857-10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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