Optimal road user charging cordon design: A heuristic optimization approach

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 377-392

  Sumalee, Agachi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOLL HIGHWAYS;

OPTIMAL ROAD USER CHARGING CORDON DESIGN; TRAFFIC NETWORKS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

GENETIC ALGORITHM; ROAD PRICING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 3242657506     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2004.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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