The Spitsmijdene xperiment: A reward to battle congestion

Transport Policy

Volumn 24, Issue , 2012, Pages 260-272

  Knockaerta, Jasper ^a   Tsenga, Yin Yen ^a   Verhoef, Erik T ^a,b   Rouwendal, Jan ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Reward experiment; Schedule delay; Traffic congestion; Value of time

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CORRELATION; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; MOTORWAY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TAX SYSTEM; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRAVEL TIME;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84867807429     PISSN: 0967070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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