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getting from one point to another, regulation may be avoided by allowing competition between several franchise owners. This … paper studies toll competition among private roads with congestion. The paper derives two main results. First, we find … is less than optimal, which runs counter to what is expected form price competition. While a lower toll reduces the out …
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rewards and taxes. The model considers a Vickrey-ADL model of bottleneck congestion with endogenous scheduling. With inelastic … efficiency viewpoint, because it attracts additional users to the congested bottleneck. As a result, both the second-best optimal …
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The traditional bottleneck model for road congestion promotes the implementation of a triangular, fully time varying … traditional bottleneck model to analyse how the coarse charge can be differentiated over two groups of travellers assuming …
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In recent years there has been a surge of interest in private toll roads as an alternative to public free-access road infrastructure. Private toll roads have gained favour for a variety of reasons, including theirpotential to alleviate traffic congestion, shrinking public funds for road...
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We describe the results of a large road use pricing experiment that installed GPS responders in 1400 vehicles and implemented usage, time-of-day, and cordon charges via a system of virtual accounts. Using six-second location data collected over an eight to ten month period, we find a mean price...
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We describe the results of a large road use pricing experiment that installed GPS responders in 1400 vehicles and implemented usage, time-of-day, and cordon charges via a system of virtual accounts. Using six-second location data collected over an eight to ten month period, we find a mean price...
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Highway construction occurs nowadays mainly through widening of existing roads rather than building new roads. This paper documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using longitudinal microdata from highway detector loops in the...
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