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This paper studies the efficiency impacts of private toll roads in initially untolled networks. The analysis allows for capacity and toll choice by private operators, and endogenizes entry and therewith the degree of competition, distinguishing and allowing for both parallel and serial...
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, and end users, in the context of road transportation. Using a game-theoretical analysis of suppliers' pricing strategies …, we assess the social welfare effects of traffic information under various road markets with different ownership regimes … negligible. Collusion of the road operator and information provider yields higher social welfare than independent pricing by two …
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roads. Also the implications of congestionpricing foroptimal road capacity are considered, and finally some explanationsfor … thelongstanding social and political resistance to road pricing areoffered. …
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changed. A striking feature of the policy in which the capacities of both modes/routes and the railway fare/toll on one road …
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warning to cost-benefit analyses: our numerical results suggest that the actual gains of a road tax might be 40% lower than … suggested by a model that disregards zoning. In general, this implies that decision making on urban road pricing can ignore …
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Private toll roads are now seriously considered as an alternative to public (free-access) road infrastructure …
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This paper considers second-best congestion pricing in the monocentric city, with endogenous residential density and endogenous labour supply. A spatial general equilibrium model is developed that allows consideration of the three-way interactions between urban density, traffic congestion and...
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strike induces car speed to decrease only marginally on the highway ring road (by 3 percent) but substantially on inner city …
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