We address whether local ISPs should be allowed to charge content providers, who derive advertising revenue, for the right to access end-users. We compare two-sided pricing where such charges are allowed to one-sided pricing where they are prohibited. By deriving provider equilibrium actions...

We address whether local ISPs should be allowed to charge content providers, who derive advertising revenue, for the right to access end-users. We compare two-sided pricing where such charges are allowed to one-sided pricing where they are prohibited. By deriving provider equilibrium actions...

Iceberg costs are modelled as a transaction cost function, which increases exponentially in an action chosen by each player. The model estimates how much the players' joint ex post shares shrink in terms of their transaction constants and production.

This report summarizes the need for (dedicated) radio spectrum for IVHS communication services. It concludes that, if efficient architectures can be developed, several MHz of spectrum will be needed for large-scale introduction of IVHS services. Compared to most other reported estimates of the...

In this paper, the authors discuss the use of vehicles moving in traffic as probes that provide data for estimation and prediction of traffic behavior. The probe vehicles can report data on their speeds, locations, or travel times which can be used by an algorithm that updates estimates of...

The following two proposals are presented: (1) Vehicles are organized in platoons in which the lead car is manually driven and the other cars are under automatic spacing (headway) control. A plausible model of the resulting flow of traffic indicates that, for an average platoon size of 20, the...

This paper documents the development of a communications architecture for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) being studied by the California PATH Program. The authors use a layered architecture based on the OSI 7- layer reference model.

A quasi-reversible queue can be associated with certain type of transactions of a Markov chain. It is shown that if Markov chains are coupled in a certain way, then to the resulting chain be associated a queuing network which is itself quasi-reversible and the stationary distribution of the...

This paper presents a model of traffic on a highway based on the macroscopic description of traffic as a compressible fluid. We take the computationally efficient model of Papageorgiou and test it on field data. We extend the model to flow under the influence of traffic-obstructing incidents. In...