书目名称 | Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing |
编辑 | John F. McDonald,Edmond L. d’Ouville,Louie Nan Liu |
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丛书名称 | Transportation Research, Economics and Policy |
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描述 | .Economics of Urban Highway Congestion and Pricing. offersthe most extensive examination to date of the relationship betweencongestion tolls and highway capacity in the long run. This studybreaks new ground in the economic theory of optimal road capacity byincluding theoretical contributions, empirical studies, and simulationexperiments that all pertain to the general topic reflected in thetitle. The book is organized into four sections: 1) highway trafficflow; 2) commuter choice of tollways versus freeways; 3) congestionpricing in the short run; and 4) road capacity and pricing in the longrun. .In particular, the first section on highway traffic flow examines thechief models and empirical studies of vehicular flow on urbanhighways. The second section of the book is a theoretical andempirical examination of the choice that commuters make between urbantollways and freeways. The third section is devoted to congestionpricing in the short run, the time period in which the urban highwayfacilities are taken as given. This section is the most important partof the book from the standpoint of public policy. The fourth and lastsection of the book considers road capacity and pricing in the lo |
出版日期 | Book 1999 |
关键词 | Import; economic theory; public policy; simulation; traffic |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5231-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-7384-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-5231-4Series ISSN 1572-4387 |
issn_series | 1572-4387 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999 |