Pareto-improving congestion pricing and revenue refunding with multiple user classes

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 44, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 972-982

  Guo, Xiaolei ^a   Yang, Hai ^a  

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

Author keywords

Congestion pricing; Pareto improving; Revenue refunding; Traffic equilibrium

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; TRAVEL TIME;

AVERAGE TRAVEL TIME; CONGESTION PRICING; MULTIPLE USER CLASS; ORIGIN DESTINATION; PARETO-IMPROVING; TRAFFIC EQUILIBRIUM; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK; USER HETEROGENEITY;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

HETEROGENEITY; MODELING; PRICING POLICY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77954456518     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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