Tolling traffic links under stochastic assignment: Modelling the relationship between the number and price level of tolled links and optimal traffic flows

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 644-654

  Stewart, Kathryn ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congestion Charging; Marginal social costs; Optimal tolls; Stochastic user equilibrium; Traffic assignment

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; HEURISTIC METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION CHARGES;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEM OPTIMAL (SSO); STOCHASTIC USER EQUILIBRIUM (SUE); SYSTEM OPTIMISING (SO) FLOW PATTERN; TOTAL NETWORK TRAVEL COST (TNTC);

TOLL HIGHWAYS;

FLOW PATTERN; ROAD PRICING; STOCHASTICITY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 33947384591     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2006.09.015     Document Type: Article

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