Quantifying the benefit of responsive pricing and travel information in the stochastic congestion pricing problem

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 204-218

  Gardner, Lauren M ^a   Boyles, Stephen D ^b   Waller, S Travis ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion pricing; Demand uncertainty; Information; Revenue variability; Supply uncertainty; Toll road returns

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TOLL HIGHWAYS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL TIME;

CONGESTION PRICING; DEMAND FORECASTING; DEMAND UNCERTAINTY; INFORMATION; ROUTE CHOICE BEHAVIOR; SUPPLY UNCERTAINTY; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL INFORMATION;

COSTS;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ROAD PRICING; ROAD TRANSPORT; STOCHASTICITY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79251618974     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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