Road pricing with complications

Transportation

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 479-503

  Fosgerau, Mogens ^a,b   van Dender, Kurt ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Centre for Transport Studies   (Sweden)

^c OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Congestion; Congestion pricing; Externalities; Road pricing; Tolling

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPORTATION CHARGES; TRAVEL TIME;

CONGESTION; CONGESTION PRICING; EXTERNALITIES; ROAD PRICING; TOLLING;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; PRICE DYNAMICS; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSACTION COST; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EID: 84876093964     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-012-9442-5     Document Type: Article

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