Congestion pricing in the absence of demand functions

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 159-171

  Han, Deren ^a   Yang, Hai ^b  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Congestion pricing; Marginal cost; Transportation network; Unknown mappings; Variational inequality problems

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COSTS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

CONGESTION PRICING; DEMAND FUNCTION; IMPLEMENTATION SCHEME; LINK-FLOW; MARGINAL COSTS; MARGINAL-COST PRICING; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK; TRIAL AND ERROR; UNKNOWN MAPPING; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITY PROBLEMS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ALGORITHM; PRICING POLICY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

EID: 57149139935     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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