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. First, profit-maximizing ports internalize hinterland congestion in as far as it affects their customers. Second, investment … in port capacity reduces prices and congestion at both ports, but increases hinterland congestion in the region where the … port investment is made. Investment in a port’s hinterland is likely to lead to more port congestion and higher prices for …
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I study delays and congestion patterns in US hub airports during periods of high flight volume. I find that these … delays. These results lend support to recent theoretical work on congestion, implying that hub-airlines take into account the … impact of their scheduling decisions on the congestion that they bear. The results may suggest that congestion management …
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Engineering studies demonstrate that traffic in dense downtown areas obeys a stable functional relationship between …
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, profit-maximizing ports internalize hinterland congestion in as far as it affects their customers. Second, investment in port … capacity reduces prices and congestion at both ports, but increases hinterland congestion in the region where the port … investment is made. Investment in a port’s hinterland likely leads to more port congestion and higher prices for port facility …
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Urban congestion causes travel times to exhibit considerable variability, which leads to coordination problems when …
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Urban congestion causes travel times to exhibit considerable variability, which leads to coordination problems when …
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of the road traffic system and also bind resources. Therefore, apart from ethical aspects, road accidents have an …Road safety forms a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable mobility. Road accidents have an effect on the performance … enormous influence on the social acceptability of road traffic as well as on a country's economic progress. In 2004, the costs …
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of the road traffic system and also bind resources. Therefore, apart from ethical aspects, road accidents have an …Road safety forms a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable mobility. Road accidents have an effect on the performance … enormous influence on the social acceptability of road traffic as well as on a country's economic progress. In 2004, the costs …
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We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for … schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between … schools near highways, where one school has had greater levels of pollution because it is downwind of a highway. Students who …
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urban traffic congestion is increasing with alarming rapidity. For fifty years, economists have been advocating congestion … pricing as the way to deal with urban traffic congestion; but today, even after some successes, congestion pricing is … encountering considerable political resistance. The authors of Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion advocate active consideration …
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