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A discrete-choice model approach to optimal congestion charge
Strøm, Steinar (contributor); Vislie, Jon (contributor) - 2008
take her own car will inflict a congestion cost on all travellers. To get the travellers to internalise these external … costs, a congestion charge has to be imposed. We derive an optimal congestion charge within in a discrete-choice framework …, with a benevolent government maximising expected tax-adjusted social surplus. The congestion charge to be imposed on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003692390
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A Discrete-Choice Model Approach to Optimal Congestion Change
Strøm, Steinar; Vislie, Jon - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2008
take her own car will inflict a congestion cost on all travellers. To get the travellers to internalise these external … costs, a congestion charge has to be imposed. We derive an optimal congestion charge within in a discrete-choice framework …, with a benevolent government maximising expected tax-adjusted social surplus. The congestion charge to be imposed on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652347
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Taxing vehicles, fuels, and road use : opportunities for improving transport tax practice
Van Dender, Kurt - 2019
road transport. In heavily congested areas, targeted charges are a cost-effective way of reducing congestion. Fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135999
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Pricing congestion to increase traffic : the case of Bogotá
Montero, Juan-Pablo; Sepúlveda, Felipe; Basso, Leonardo J. - 2025
, known as Pico y Placa. Since then, drivers have had the option to pay a daily congestion fee to be exempt from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015407159
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Assessing the welfare effects of congestion charges in a real world setting
Börjesson, Maria; Kristoffersson, Ida - In: Transportation research / E : an international journal 70 (2014), pp. 339-355
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433344
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A Political Economy Model of Road Pricing
De Borger, Bruno L. - 2010
In this paper, we take a political economy approach to study the introduction of urban congestion tolls, using a simple … majority voting model. Making users pay for external congestion costs is for an economist an obvious reform, but successful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141494
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The political economy of cordon tolls
De Borger, Bruno L.; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - Preliminary draft
Political acceptability is the primary obstacle to implementation of road pricing in many cities. This paper studies the political economy of urban road pricing in its most common incarnation: cordon tolling. We relate voters' preferences for the road toll to its impact on the city's land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479074
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Urban congestion charging : theory, practice and environmental consequences
Santos, Georgina; Newbery, David M. G. - 2001
congestion cost at the efficientlevel of traffic. The second-best network counterpart is derived, but would beinfeasible to … of cordon tolls aremeasured and shown to correlate with optimal congestion tolls, but to bemodest in size and not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400380
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The political economy of cordon tolls
De Borger, Bruno L.; Russo, Antonio - 2015
This paper studies the political economy of cordon tolls, the most common form of road pricing in cities. We consider a monocentric city inhabited by renters and resident-landowners. A cordon toll raises the rental price of land within the cordon, and it reduces rents outside this area. Hence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350197
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Second-Best Urban Tolls in a Monocentric City with Housing Market Regulations
Tikoudis, Ioannis - 2015
This paper investigates second-best congestion pricing in a monocentric city characterized by distortionary, rigid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030301