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Road pricing: An overview
M. Rouhani, Omid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
pricing, namely (a) congestion reduction; (b) raising profits; (c) social welfare maximization; etc. Then, it explores various … types of road pricing, including two major ones: (1) road tolls and (2) congestion pricing charges. Next, general modeling …
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On the Performance of the U.S. Transportation System: Caution Ahead
Winston, Clifford - In: Journal of Economic Literature 51 (2013) 3, pp. 773-824
Transportation is a vital sector of the U.S. economy based on consumers', firms', and government's enormous expenditures in money and time and on its effect on virtually all other sectors in the economy. I assess the performance of the transportation system and consider how it could be improved...
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“When supply travels far beyond demand: Institutional and regulatory causes of oversupply in Spain’s transport infrastructure”
Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2013
Spain’s transport infrastructure policy has become a paradigmatic case of oversupply and of mismatch with demand. The massive expansion of the country’s transport infrastructure over the last decade has not been a response to demand bottlenecks or previously identified needs. For this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662751
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“When supply travels far beyond demand: Causes of oversupply in Spain’s transport infrastructure”
Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2014
Spain’s transport infrastructure policy has become a paradigmatic case of oversupply and of mismatch with demand. The massive expansion of the country’s transport infrastructure over the last decade has not been a response to demand bottlenecks or previously identified needs. For this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750350
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Financial Risks of Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems - Economic View and Relevance for Market Introduction Decisions
Schulz, Wolfgang H. - 2015
Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems (IVSS) promise significant traffic safety improvements, which means from a societal point of view that resource savings can be realized and the allocative efficiency can be optimized. Therefore, transport policy has a high willingness to support and to ensure...
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Inside the Queue
Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
, based on car-following theory. The model integrates twoarchetype congestion technologies used in the economics literature …: 'static flow congestion',originating in the works of Pigou, and 'dynamic bottleneck congestion', pioneered byVickrey. Because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255871
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Product Differentiation on Roads: Second-Best Congestion Pricing with Heterogeneity under Public and Private Ownership
Verhoef, Erik T.; Small, Kenneth A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
We explore the properties of various types of public and private pricing on acongested road network with heterogeneous users and allowing for elasticdemand. Heterogeneity is represented by a continuum of values of time. Thenetwork consists of both serial and parallel links, which allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256416
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How the Transport System can Contribute to Better Economic and Environmental Outcomes in the Netherlands
Koźluk, Tomasz - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Congestion has become a burden for the Dutch economy. Commuters and businesses are suffering from the time lost in … about significant benefits in terms of lower congestion and less pollution. The full benefits of road pricing can be reaped … congestion charges to obtain similar outcomes. Reforms to the transport system, including public transport, together with a more …
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Modelling social welfare effects of relocation and road pricing
Babri, Sahar; McArthur, David Philip; Thorsen, Inge; … - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014
Road pricing is a popular congestion reduction strategy. However, there may be wider impacts associated with a road …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099539
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Inside the Queue
Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
This paper develops a continuous-time -continuous-place economic model of road traffic congestion with a bottleneck …, based on car-following theory. The model integrates two archetype congestion technologies used in the economics literature …: 'static flow congestion', originating in the works of Pigou, and 'dynamic bottleneck congestion', pioneered by Vickrey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137224