This paper reviews literature on the optimal design of pricing policies to reduce urban automobile congestion. The implications of a range of complicating factors are considered; these include traffic bottlenecks, constraints on which roads and freeway lanes in the road network can be priced,...

We estimate reductions in vehicle emissions of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and hydrocarbons from highway congestion pricing in New Castle County (NCCo), Delaware. Our computer simulation model includes elastic travel demand with routes chosen to minimize average private cost (no pricing)...

Upon moving to Hamburg, Germany, after a couple of years abroad, I noticed that gas prices at the pump varied much more over time than I had been accustomed to in Hungary. Neither did these fluctuations tally well with previous personal experience living in Bavaria for almost two decades. To be...

Der Datenverkehr über das Internet nimmt stark zu. Einerseits steigt die Internet-Nutzung der Individuen mit Webbrowsing, e-mail etc. deutlich an. Andererseits kommen neue und großvolumige Dienste hinzu bzw. gewinnen quantitativ an Bedeutung, z.B. VoiP, Peer to-peer File Sharing,...