This paper introduces and provides a context for a special issue consisting of five selected papers that examine traffic congestion mitigation, with a focus on combining engineering and economic perspectives. Each paper provides novel insights of their own. The papers cover the modeling of...

The Highway Space Inventory Control System (HSICS) is a novel travel demand management concept in which all road users have to make reservations <italic>in advance</italic> to enter a highway. A modeling framework for such a system is proposed and illustrated for a hypothetical highway section. The proposed...

<title>A<sc>bstract</sc> </title> Planners, engineers and economists have introduced various demand management methods in an attempt to reduce the fast growing traffic congestion. The basic idea behind various demand management strategies is to force drivers to travel and use transportation facilities more during...