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Using nudging information to manage congestion and emissions in a road and metro network

Liang, Zhiyuan; Berg, Vincent A. C. van den; Verhoef, … - 2024

heterogeneity in environmental preferences, car types, and income, the study further highlights that the effectiveness of such … with heterogeneity, nudging information may result in negative welfare effects by causing welfare-reducing swaps in road …

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Robot cars and dynamic bottleneck congestion : the effects on capacity, value of time and preference heterogeneity

Berg, Vincent A. C. van den; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2015 - This version: 9 June 2015

"Robot cars" are cars that allow for automated driving. They can drive closer together than human driven "normal cars" and thereby raise road capacity. Obtaining a robot car instead of a normal car can also be expected to lower the userś value of time losses (VOT), because travel time can be...

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Private road supply in networks with heterogeneous users

Fu, Xinying; Berg, Vincent A. C. van den; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2017

We study different mixes of private and public supply of roads in a network with bottleneck congestion and heterogeneous users. In our setting, there are two parallel links for one origin and destination pair and two groups of travellers, where the group with higher value of time also has higher...

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Self-financing roads under coarse tolling and heterogeneous preferences

Berg, Vincent A. C. van den - 2022 - Version of 13-07-2022

preference heterogeneity, bottleneck congestion and linear capacity cost. Previous work has shown that a sufficient condition for … user at all moments when their users travel. However, under 'ratio heterogeneity' between values of time (VOT) and schedule … 0% to 1.5%. We also analyze other forms of heterogeneity: proportional heterogeneity, heterogeneity in the preferred …

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Evaluation of a new maintenance concept for the preservation of highways

Dekker, Rommert; Plasmeijer, Raymond Philippe; Swart, Jan H. - 1997

Asphalt roads are gradually deteriorating over time and need road mending to remain in a good state. Inspections are performed to obtain information about the current state of the road; when the damage achieves the established standards, the road is repaired through a maintenance action that is...

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Does public transit reduce car travel externalities?

Adler, Martin W.; Ommeren, Jos van - 2015

One of the main unanswered questions in the field of urban economics is to which extent subsidies to public transit are justified. We examine one of the main benefits of public transit, a reduction in car congestion externalities, the so-called congestion relief benefit, using quasi-natural...

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Private road networks with uncertain demand

Fu, Xinying; Berg, Vincent A. C. van den; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2015

There has been wide interest in private supply of roads as a solution to traffic congestion. We study its efficiency under demand uncertainty: we solve for equilibrium and optimum as benchmarks, and evaluate the efficiency of possible regulatory policies for private road operators. We obtain...

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Is the service quality of private roads too Low, too high, or just right when firms compete stackelberg in capacity?

Berg, Vincent A. C. van den; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2011 - Version of 13 May 2011

We study road supply by competing firms between a single origin and destination. In previous studies, firms simultaneously set their tolls and capacities while taking the actions of the others as given in a Nash fashion. Then, under some widely used technical assumptions, firms set a...

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Second-best pricing for imperfect substitutes in urban networks

Rouwendal, Jan; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2003

This paper considers second-best pricing as it arises through incomplete coverage of full networks. The main principles are first reviewed by considering the classic two-route problem and some extensions that have been studied more recently. In most of these studies the competing routes are...

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Private road networks with uncertain demand

Fu, Xinying; Berg, Vincent A. C. van den; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2017

We study the efficiency of private supply of roads under demand uncertainty and evaluate various regulatory policies. Due to demand uncertainty, capacity is decided before demand is known but tolls can be adjusted after demand is known. Policy implications can differ considerably from those...

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