Give or take? Rewards versus charges for a congested bottleneck

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 166-176

  Rouwendal, Jan ^a   Verhoef, Erik T ^a   Knockaert, Jasper ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bottleneck model; Rewards; Road pricing; Subsidies; Traffic congestion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROAD PRICING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EID: 80053175047     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2011.08.011     Document Type: Article

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