Trial-and-error method for congestion pricing scheme under side-constrained probit-based stochastic user equilibrium conditions

Transportation

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 819-843

  Meng, Qiang ^a   Liu, Zhiyuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Capacity constraint; Cordon based congestion pricing; Elastic demand; Stochastic user equilibrium; Trial and error method

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; CORDON-BASED CONGESTION; ELASTIC DEMAND; STOCHASTIC USER EQUILIBRIUM; TRIAL-AND-ERROR METHOD;

COSTS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

DEMAND ELASTICITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; ROAD PRICING; STOCHASTICITY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 80053573165     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-011-9346-9     Document Type: Article

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