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Lessons from the COVID-19 situation: Rethinking global supply chain networks and strengthening supply management in public procurement in Germany
Helmold, Marc; Einmahl, Matthias; Rassmann, Klaus Joachim; … - 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has identified several weaknesses and shortcomings of global supply chain networks. Due to the rapidly increasing demand of protective healthcare equipment, i.e. goggles, masks or equipment, it is visible that global supply chains have been significantly challenged....
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Verkehrsökonomie bei Lukian: Die Überfahrt in den Hades
Evangelinos, Christos - 2020
This paper discusses some transport economic dimensions of Lucians "Dialogues of the Dead". Using the service "soul transportation to Hades" as an example, we discuss the transport economic notions revealed in these dialogues, and we draw the parallels to modern economic and political debates....
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Road Pricing: Old Beliefs, Present Awareness and Future Research Patterns
Marcucci, Edoardo - 1999
The theoretical evolution of academic beliefs and practical policymakers' perceptions of road pricing (from now on rp) as an instrument of efficient and equitable allocation of resources are described and analysed. The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the logical evolution of the theory behind...
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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. - 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...
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Inside the Queue
Verhoef, Erik T. - 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 …
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Envelhecimento populacional, gratuidades no transporte público e seus efeitos sobre as tarifas na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Carvalho, Rafael … - 2014
Students, children under 4 years old and people aged 65 and over in Brazil are entitled to partial or full discount on urban trips using public transport systems. These discounts are not covered by public funding, but rather by the other service users who pay full-fare. In this study, we...
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Disponibilidad y accesibilidad en el transporte público madrileño como garantía de equidad social ante la aplicación de un peaje urbano para la ciudad de Madrid
Muñoz Miguel, Juan Pedro; de Blas, Clara Simón; … - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 20 (2014) 1, pp. 47-54
A sufficiently accessible public transport, is one of the main factors for the implementation of congestion charging … that promotes fairness socially desirable for the congestion charge. …
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The Economics of Airport Congestion Pricing
Pels, Eric; Verhoef, Erik - 2003
Conventional economic wisdom suggests that congestion pricing would be an appropriate response to cope with the growing … congestion levels currently experienced at many airports. Several characteristics of aviation markets, however, may make naive … congestion prices equal to the value of marginal travel delays a non-optimal response. This paper develops a model of airport …
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Competition in Multi-Modal Transport Networks: A Dynamic Approach
van der Weijde, Adriaan Hendrik; Verhoef, Erik T.; van … - 2012
We analyse the behaviour of market participants in a multi-modal commuter network where roads are not priced, but public transport has a usage fee, which is set while taking the effects on the roads into account. In particular, we analyse the difference between markets with a monopolistic public...
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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies: Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity
van den Bijgaart, Inge; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2020
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...
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