A stochastic approach to traffic congestion costs

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1731-1739

  van Woensel, T ^a   Cruz, F R B ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congestion costs; Queueing models; Traffic

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

ACCURATE MODELING; COMPLEX DYNAMICS; CONGESTION COSTS; EXTERNAL COSTS; EXTERNAL-; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPERATIONAL MODELS; PUBLIC SECTORS; QUEUEING MODELS; REAL WORLDS; ROAD TAXES; ROAD TRAFFICS; ROAD USERS; STOCHASTIC APPROACHES; STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTS; STOCHASTIC TRAFFICS; STOCHASTICITY; TRAFFIC;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 56549123143     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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