Pareto-improving and revenue-neutral congestion pricing schemes in two-mode traffic networks

NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-140

  Liu, Yang ^a   Guo, Xiaolei ^b   Yang, Hai ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Congestion pricing; Pareto improving; Revenue neutral; Traffic equilibrium; Two mode network

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349188413     PISSN: 13859587     EISSN: 15737071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11066-008-9018-x     Document Type: Article

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