Coarse tolling with heterogeneous preferences

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-23

  Van den Berg, Vincent A C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bottleneck model; Coarse tolling; Distributional effects; Heterogeneous preferences; Proportional heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

COSTS;

BOTTLENECK MODELS; COARSE TOLLING; DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS; HETEROGENEOUS PREFERENCES; PROPORTIONAL HETEROGENEITY;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ARRIVAL TIME; CONGESTION; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; ROAD PRICING; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EID: 84897448265     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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