Congestion tolling in the bottleneck model with heterogeneous values of time

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-78

  van den Berg, Vincent ^a   Verhoef, Erik T ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bottleneck model; Congestion pricing; Heterogeneity; Second best pricing; Value of time

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY;

BOTTLENECK MODELS; CONGESTION PRICING; HETEROGENEITY; SECOND-BEST PRICING; VALUE OF TIME;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

HETEROGENEITY; PRICE DYNAMICS; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRANSPORTATION POLICY;

EID: 78149496793     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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