Tolls are frequently discussed policies to reduce traffic in cities. However, road pricing measures are seldom implemented due to high investments and unpopularity. Transportation planning tools can support planning authorities by solving those problems if they take into account the following...

Public acceptance has often been named as a key factor for the successful realization of transport projects and policies. One reason, why even economically efficient projects might not be accepted by the major part of the population, could be the unequal distribution of benefits. For instance,...

This paper provides an introduction to multiagent traffic simulation. It includes some description of where we are with respect to the implementation of a real-world Berlin scenario. It turns out that the difficulties there, because of data availability and because of the special situation of...

This article reports on the calibration and analysis of a fully disaggregate (agent-based) transport simulation for the metropolitan area of Zurich. The agent-based simulation goes beyond traditional transport models in that it equilibrates not only route choice but all-day travel behavior,...

The major developments in the study of institutional economics in recent years has greatly deepened people's understanding of institutional change and market evolution. Generally speaking, institutional change is headed in the general direction of the continuous reduction of market transaction...

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of tail probability of a randomly weighted sum of real-valued heavy-tailed dependent random variables; the weights form another sequence random variable. Under some other mild conditions, the asymptotic relations obtained are further applied to...

The purpose of this paper is to show how certain results obtained by Peter Whittle [Whittle, P. 1963. Prediction and Regulation by Linear Least Square Methods. English Universities Press, London.] may be used to derive the results on adaptive forecasting obtained by Wage and Nerlove [Nerlove,...

This article addresses the role of spatial interaction in social networks. We analyse empirical data describing a network of leisure contacts and show that the probability to accept a person as a contact scales in distance with ∼ d <Superscript> − 1.4</Superscript>. Moreover, the analysis reveals that the number...</superscript>

We look at price formation in a retail setting, that is, companies set prices, and consumers either accept prices or go someplace else. In contrast to most other models in this context, we use a two-dimensional spatial structure for information transmission, that is, consumers can only learn...