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Carpooling and Congestion Pricing: HOV and HOT Lanes

Konishi, Hideo; Mun, Se-il - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2009

It is often argued in the US that HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes are wasteful and should be converted to HOT (high occupancy vehicles and toll lanes). In this paper, we construct a simple model of commuters using a highway with multiple lanes, in which commuters are heterogeneous in their...

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Alleviating Traffic Congestion: Alternatives to Road Pricing

Arnott, Richard - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1994

, including standardization and the treatment of out-of-towners. Political acceptability is an even more serious obstacle. How can …

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Modeling Parking

Arnott, Richard; Rowse, John - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1997

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The Economic Theory of Urban Traffic Congestion: A Microscopic Research Agenda

Arnott, Richard - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2001

For presentation at CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2001, Workshop on Environmental Economics and the Economics of Congestion: Coping with Externalities, Venice International University, San Servolo, July 18-19,2001.

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Road Pricing with Optimal Mass Transit

Kraus, Marvin - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2011

This paper asks the question, "How should the level of mass transit service be adjusted when road pricing is introduced for a substitute auto mode?" The reference point for the introduction of road pricing is second-best optimization in transit. Because this involves below- marginal-cost pricing...

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Transport Economics

Kraus, Marvin; Arnott, Richard - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2003

This paper is concerned with the application of microeconomic theory to resource allocation in the transportation sector. The basic questions it addresses are how transportation should be priced and how capacity should be determined. Three models, the traditional highway pricing and investment...

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When are Anonymous Congestion Charges Consistent with Marginal Cost Pricing?

Arnott, Richard; Kraus, Marvin - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1997

There are constraints on pricing congestible facilities. First, if heterogeneous users are observationally indistinguishable, then congestion charges must be anonymous. Second, the time variation of congestion charges may be constrained. Do these constraints undermine the feasibility of marginal...

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Returns to Scale in Networks

Kraus, Marvin - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2006

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Attitudes, Policies and Work

Schiantarelli, Fabio; Giavazzi, Francesco; Serafinelli, … - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2009

We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the … culture exploiting the evolution over time within country as well as across countries, of cultural attitudes. We also address … the endogeneity of attitudes, policies and institutions, and allow for the persistent nature of labor market outcomes. We …

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Congestion Tolling and Urban Spatial Structure

Arnott, Richard - Department of Economics, Boston College - 1997

According to the standard model of urban traffic congestion and urban spatial structure, congestion tolling results in a more concentrated city. In recent years, a new model of rush hour urban auto congestion has been developed which incorporates trip-timing decisions: the bottleneck model. In...

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