Optimal urban transport pricing in the presence of congestion, economies of density and costly public funds

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1220-1230

  Proost, Stef ^a   Dender, Kurt Van ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion; Transit; Transport

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CONGESTION; ECONOMIES OF DENSITIES; OPTIMAL TRANSPORT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRANSIT; TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT MARKET; TRANSPORTATION SECTOR;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

CONGESTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; BRUSSELS; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 53649090645     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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