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Shewmake, Sharon; Jarvis, Lovell - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 67 (2014) C, pp. 304-319

The 2005 California Clean Air Access Sticker program offered stickers to owners of hybrid cars allowing unrestricted access to High Occupancy Vehicle lanes. The program was conceived as a zero-cost mechanism to encourage purchase of hybrid cars and to reduce air pollution. Information from sales...

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Urban travel demand model with endogenous congestion

Batarce, Marco; Ivaldi, Marc - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 59 (2014) C, pp. 331-345

their transport decisions based on network congestion. A key component in the model is the infinite number of users in the … congestion level is endogenously determined in the equilibrium of a game with a continuum of players. For the estimate, we use … effect of congestion on individuals’ preferences and that demand elasticities obtained by using our framework are consistent …

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The economics and engineering of bus stops: Spacing, design and congestion

Tirachini, Alejandro - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 59 (2014) C, pp. 37-57

, spacing and congestion in high demand markets. A comprehensive review of the theory and practice on the location and spacing … crucial to determining the relationship between bus stop spacing and demand, with bus stop congestion in the form of queuing …

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Sensitivity of prices to demand shocks: A natural experiment in the San Francisco Bay Area

Bilotkach, Volodymyr; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, … - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46 (2012) 7, pp. 1137-1151

We analyze the impact of a freeway interchange collapse in the San Francisco Bay Area on the difference in airfare quotes for travel into the area’s main airports. The incident temporarily made Oakland airport a less attractive choice for traveling to San Francisco, so we hypothesize that...

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The effects of decentralized capacity decisions for congested self-financed roads

Grahn-Voorneveld, Sofia - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 56 (2013) C, pp. 49-60

This paper studies the differences between centralized and decentralized decisions for capacity and road user charges on a congested self-financed road with local, national and international traffic. Road user charges are allowed only to cover the costs for providing the road with a specific...

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Anticipatory modulation of air navigation charges to balance the use of airspace network capacities

Jovanović, Radosav; Tošić, Vojin; Čangalović, Mirjana - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 61 (2014) C, pp. 84-99

Excess of air traffic demand over available capacity in certain segments of the European airspace network typically results in substantial delays imposed on airspace users, despite a possible parallel existence of underutilised adjacent network segments. Recent EU legislation lays down a...

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Labour market effects in assessing the costs and benefits of road pricing

McArthur, D.P.; Thorsen, I.; Ubøe, J. - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46 (2012) 2, pp. 310-321

Traffic congestion and the policies used to combat it have been studied extensively. One area which has received less …

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Weather to travel to the beach

Sabir, Muhammad; van Ommeren, Jos; Rietveld, Piet - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 58 (2013) C, pp. 79-86

congestion. An important question is then to what extent travelers react to these forms of congestion by switching to other …. Our findings suggest that modal choice of beach travelers is sensitive to weather-induced congestion on roads to the beach … pricing of parking near beaches is suggested as a solution to reduce congestion and cruising for parking externalities. …

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Road pricing for congestion and accident externalities for mixed traffic of motorcycles and automobiles

Tsai, Jyh-Fa; Chu, Chih-Peng; Hu, Shou-Ren - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 71 (2015) C, pp. 153-166

road pricing for the congestion and accident externalities of mixed traffic of automobiles and motorcycles. A model for … show that the tax for accident externality is larger than that for congestion externality. …

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