Design of more equitable congestion pricing and tradable credit schemes for multimodal transportation networks

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1273-1287

  Wu, Di ^a   Yin, Yafeng ^a   Lawphongpanich, Siriphong ^a   Yang, Hai ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Congestion pricing; Equity; Multimodal transportation networks; Tradable credits

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

CONGESTION MITIGATION; CONGESTION PRICING; EQUITY; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMS WITH EQUILIBRIUM CONSTRAINTS; MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS; TRADABLE CREDIT SCHEMES; TRADABLE CREDITS; TRIP GENERATIONS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ALGORITHM; CREDIT PROVISION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROAD PRICING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84865812899     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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