Ride-hailing applications create new challenges for governments providing transit services, but also create new opportunities to raise tax revenue. To shed light on the effect of taxing or subsidizing ride-hailing applications, we extend a pseudo-monocentric city model to include multiple...

Über die Einführung einer Pkw-Maut wird nach der Bundestagswahl heftig diskutiert. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer macht den Vorschlag, die Maut zu nutzen, um damit das gesamte Verkehrssteuersystem zu modernisieren. Sowohl die Schadstoffbelastung als auch die Staugefahr könnte auf diese Weise gelenkt...

This paper considers second-best pricing as it arises through incomplete coverage of full networks. The main principles are first reviewed by considering the classic two-route problem and some extensions that have been studied more recently. In most of these studies the competing routes are...

This paper considers the use of ‘long-run cost functions’ for congested networks in solving second-best network problems, in which capacity and tolls are instruments. We derive analytical results both for general cost and demand functions and for specific functional forms, namely Bureau of...