Angesichts der Zunahme von Staus auf Autobahnen werden die Rufe nach höheren Investitionen in die Fernstraßeninfrastruktur immer lauter. Abhilfe soll vor allem der Ausbau überlasteter Autobahnabschnitte auf sechs oder gar acht Spuren schaffen. Doch der Autobahnausbau verursacht hohe Kosten...

Angesichts der Zunahme von Staus auf Autobahnen werden die Rufe nach höheren Investitionen in die Fernstraßeninfrastruktur immer lauter. Abhilfe soll vor allem der Ausbau überlasteter Autobahnabschnitte auf sechs oder gar acht Spuren schaffen. Doch der Autobahnausbau verursacht hohe Kosten...

In the face of capacity disruptions (due, for example, to traffic incidents or poor weather), information provision and congestion pricing are alternative alleviating policies. A state-dependent toll equals the state-dependent marginal external cost (MEC), which is higher if traffic condition is...

In this paper we evaluate and compare long-run economic effects of six road-pricing schemes aimed at internalizing social costs of transportation. In order to conduct this analysis, we employ a spatially disaggregated general equilibrium model of a regional economy that incorporates decisions of...

In this paper we will see how commuter preferences can be revealed from observations of trip distributions. We will explain how to find unique representations of preference structures leading to an observed trip distribution, and will also present a numerical method that can be used to infer...

People who anticipate the introduction of a policy can adapt their behavior, perhaps in ways that make the policy ineffective and exacerbate the problem to be addressed. This paper develops a political economy model to study strategic behavior related to the introduction of congestion policies,...

This paper shows that differentiating driving costs by time of day and vehicle type help improve urban air quality, lower driving, and induce adoption of electric vehicles. By taking advantage of a congestion charge that imposed spatial and temporal variation in the cost of driving a...

We examine the effect of citywide parking policy on parking and traffic demand. Using a large increase in on-street parking prices for the city of Amsterdam, we show that the policy caused a substantial drop in on-street parking demand, which is not offset by an increase in off-street demand....

Angesichts der Zunahme von Staus auf Autobahnen werden die Rufe nach höheren Investitionen in die Fernstraßeninfrastruktur immer lauter. Abhilfe soll vor allem der Ausbau überlasteter Autobahnabschnitte auf sechs oder gar acht Spuren schaffen. Doch der Autobahnausbau verursacht hohe Kosten...

This paper estimates the marginal accident externality of driving in Central London by exploiting variation in traffic flow induced by the London Congestion Charge Zone using an instrumental variable approach. The charge attributed to a 9.4% reduction in traffic flow, which resulted in a less...