Description: I Highway Traffic Flow.- 1. An Engineering Model of Traffic Flow.- 2 Highway Traffic Flow and the 'Uneconomic' Region of Production.- 3 An Empirical Model of Highway Traffic Flow.- II Commuter Choice of Tollways Versus Freeways.- 4. Theory of Route Choice and the Value of Time.- 5. An Empirical Study of the Choice of Tollway or Freeway.- III Congestion Pricing in the Short Run.- 6. Congestion Pricing in the Short Run: The Basic Model.- 7. Urban Highway Congestion: An Analysis of Second-Best Tolls.- 8. Mathematical Formulation of a Multiple-Period Congestion Pricing Model.- 9. A Simulation Study of Peak and Off-Peak Congestion Pricing.- 10. The California SR-91 Example of Value Pricing.- IV Road Capacity and Pricing in the Long Run.- 11. Road Capacity with Efficient Tolls.- 12. The Comparison of Optimal Road Capacities: No Toll Versus the Optimal Toll.- 13. The Long-Run Two-Road Model of Traffic Congestion.- 14. Optimal Road Capacity with Hyper-Congestion in the Absence of Tolls.- 15. A Model of Demand for Traffic Density.- 16. Demand Uncertainty, Optimal Capacity, and Congestion Tolls.- 17. Optimal Capacity for a Bottleneck and Sub-Optimal Congestion Tolls.- Summary and Conclusions.- Author Index.

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