Pareto-improving ramp metering strategies for reducing congestion in the morning commute

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 676-696

  Shen, Wei ^a   Zhang, H M ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Externality; Morning commute; Pareto improving; Ramp metering

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS;

DEPARTURE TIME CHOICE; EXTERNALITY; FREEWAY BOTTLENECKS; MORNING COMMUTES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARETO-IMPROVING; RAMP METERING; RAMP-METERING STRATEGY;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

COMMUTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77956343547     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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