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Some road-pricing demonstrations use an approach call ed "value pricing", in which travelers can choose between a free but congested roadway and a priced roadway. Recent research has uncovered a potentially serious problem for such demonstrations: in certain models, second-best tolls are far...
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die ökonomische Funktionsweise der so genannten City-Maut dargestellt, über praktische … möglich. Die City-Maut lässt sich als Pigou’sche Internalisierungssteuer definieren, mit der die Nachfrage nach … Maut und das Erreichen neuer Nash-Gleichgewichte im Straßennetz abgebildet werden. Raumstrukturelle Wirkungen lassen sich z …
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transportation planning model calibrated for the Washington, DC, metropolitan area to compare the welfare and distributional effects …
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Road users fail to realize their role in congestion. This thesis aims to calculate the appropriate charges required for users of I-495 - the Capital Beltway surrounding Washington, D.C. - in order to fulfill their portion of congestion costs. By developing a model from existing data that...
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) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …
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Urban traffic congestion is recognised as a major problem by most people in world cities. However, theimplementation of congestion reducing measures on a wide scale eludes most world cities suffering fromtraffic congestion, as many oppose the notion of road pricing and despite economists and...
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Community Health Centers (CHCs), designed to provide accessible and affordable health care services to low … health centers found that the explanatory power of the predictors is much greater for cost efficiency than for technical …
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The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this … study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage … rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking …
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Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …
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