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The Value of "Value Pricing" of Roads: Second-Best Pricing and Product Differentiation
Small, Kenneth A.; Yan, Jia - 2000
Some road-pricing demonstrations use an approach call ed "value pricing", in which travelers can choose between a free but congested roadway and a priced roadway. Recent research has uncovered a potentially serious problem for such demonstrations: in certain models, second-best tolls are far...
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Congestion Pricing for the Capital Beltway
Crunkleton, Joshua - 2008
Road users fail to realize their role in congestion. This thesis aims to calculate the appropriate charges required for users of I-495 - the Capital Beltway surrounding Washington, D.C. - in order to fulfill their portion of congestion costs. By developing a model from existing data that...
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Broadband User Discrimination and the Net Neutrality Debate
Guo, Hong; Bandyopadhyay, Subhajyoti; Cheng, Hsing K. - University of Notre Dame; University of Florida; … - 2009
The net neutrality debate has brought out economic rationale for andagainst a variety of proposals of the broadband service providers todifferentiate between different classes of users. Broadband users arecharacterized by the differing amounts of content they request online,as well as their...
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Welfare and Distributional Effects of Road Pricing Schemes for Metropolitan Washington, DC
Safirova, Elena; Gillingham, Kenneth; Parry, Ian W.H.; … - 2003
transportation planning model calibrated for the Washington, DC, metropolitan area to compare the welfare and distributional effects …
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Urban congestion charging : road pricing as a traffic reduction measure / W. Heyns
Heyns, Werner - 2005
Urban traffic congestion is recognised as a major problem by most people in world cities. However, theimplementation of congestion reducing measures on a wide scale eludes most world cities suffering fromtraffic congestion, as many oppose the notion of road pricing and despite economists and...
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Erfahrungen mit der City-Maut in Europa
Kretzler, Matthias - 2012
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die ökonomische Funktionsweise der so genannten City-Maut dargestellt, über praktische Erfahrungen mit City-Mautsystemen berichtet und schließlich am Beispiel Hamburg überprüft, ob diese auf andere Städte übertragbar sind.Grundsätzlich erzeugt...
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Reconfigurable web service integration in the extended logistics enterprise
Centre for Extended Enterprises and Business Intelligence
Transportation and warehousing logistics are activities that require strong information systems and computer support …
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Incentive-compatible capacity pricing for congested transportation facilities: A game-theoretic approach
Hong, Sungwook - 1991
management of congested transportation network facilities. Computable Nash and generalized Nash equilibrium models are used to … transportation service are differentiated to allow users with different preferences to select different qualities. Two applications …
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MULTIMODAL URBAN TRANSPORTATION PRICING THEORY (PROJECT EVALUATION, DEMAND PROJECTION)
DOI, MASAYUKI - 1986
The study objective is to develop a mutimodal urban transportation pricing theory based on a proposed benefit … measurement model of transportation system or policy changes and to provide a traffic demand projection model. The benefit … economic and financial benefits in terms of transportation variables. By assuming, first, that both the automobile toll and …
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The nature of competition in electronic distribution of air travel
Hann, Il-Horn - 2000
This dissertation analyzes specific issues in the distribution of air travel. In three separate chapters, I analyze (1) the nature competition among online travel agents, (2) travel agent commission overrides as an explanation of dispersion in quoted ticket prices and (3) the response of a...
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