Risk Taking in Second-Best Toll Pricing
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چکیده
The Second-Best Toll Pricing (SBTP) problem aims to determine an optimal toll scheme for a given set of links in a transportation network so that traffic can be distributed more efficiently from the system point of view. SBTP can be further categorized as static SBTP or dynamic SBTP (DSBTP), depending on whether traffic dynamics are considered or not. In this paper, we focus on the static SBTP (which is referred to as SBTP hereafter in this paper).
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