Tradable credit schemes for managing bottleneck congestion and modal split with heterogeneous users

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-13

  Tian, Li Jun ^a,b   Yang, Hai ^c   Huang, Hai Jun ^b  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Bottleneck model; Mode choice; Tradable credit scheme; User heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE;

BOTTLENECK CONGESTION; BOTTLENECK MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS USERS; MODAL SPLIT; MODE CHOICE; TIME DEPENDENT; TRADABLE CREDIT SCHEMES; TRANSIT NETWORKS; USER HETEROGENEITY; VALUE OF TIME;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EMISSIONS TRADING; MODELING; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84877333194     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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