Modelling the effects of road pricing on traffic in Singapore

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 39, Issue 7-9, 2005, Pages 755-772

  Olszewski, Piotr ^a   Xie, Litian ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Discrete choice model; Price elasticity; Road pricing; Traffic response; Trip timing

Indexed keywords

FEES AND CHARGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; SCHEDULING; SPEED CONTROL; TOLL HIGHWAYS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ARTERIAL ROADS; ELECTRONIC ROAD PRICING (ERP) SYSTEMS; SINGAPORE; TRAFFIC VOLUMES;

ROADS AND STREETS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; ROAD PRICING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 21644482053     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2005.02.015     Document Type: Article

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