Managing rush hour travel choices with tradable credit scheme

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-19

  Nie, Yu Marco ^a   Yin, Yafeng ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobility credits; Peak time window; Rush hour traffic; System optimal; Tradable credits scheme

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ELASTICITY; OPTIMIZATION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ALTERNATIVE ROUTES; CREDIT TRADING; DEMAND ELASTICITIES; EFFICIENCY GAIN; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARALLEL ROUTE; SYSTEM-OPTIMAL; TIME WINDOWS; TRADABLE CREDIT SCHEMES; TRADABLE CREDITS;

EFFICIENCY;

COMMUTING; MOBILITY; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84874437018     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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