Coordinated pricing for cars and transit in cities with hypercongestion

Economics of Transportation

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 64-81

  Gonzales, Eric J ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathtub model; Hypercongestion; Macroscopic fundamental diagram; Pricing cars and transit; System optimum; User equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937517219     PISSN: 22120122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecotra.2015.04.003     Document Type: Article

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