This article investigates airline pricing and airport congestion charges in hub-spoke networks. When a public hub airport and two public spoke (local) airports independently levy their charges, airlines will eventually set a ticket price that overcharges the passengers for congestion delay cost...

This paper investigates optimal airport pricing when airlines provide imperfect substitutes products, and make decisions on capacity, scheduling and pricing. We show that the first-best toll per flight may be higher than the simple market-shares formula that were recently derived for Cournot...

This study examines hub-carrier scheduling and hub-airport congestion pricing using a simple hub-spoke network model incorporating both schedule delays and congestion delays. We find that in the short-middle run, where aircraft size is given exogenously, hub-airport congestion tolls are not...

This paper analyzes slot-based approaches to management of airport congestion, using a model where airlines are asymmetric and internalize airport congestion. Under these circumstances, optimal congestion tolls differ across carriers, and since a slot-sale regime (with its uniform slot price)...

This paper investigates the distributional impact of airport congestion pricing on commercial, commuter, miscellaneous, and general aviation. It extends Daniel's (1995) stochastic bottleneck model in three significant directions by allowing for non-homogeneous aircraft operating and time costs,...

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...

A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas...

Most dynamic models of congestion pricing use fully time-variant tolls. However, in practice, tolls are uniform over the day or at most have a few steps. Such uniform and step tolls have received surprisingly little attention from the literature. Moreover, most models that do study them assume...