Which consumers benefit from congestion tolls?

A Glazer, E Niskanen - Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 2000 - JSTOR
Consider a consumer who can choose to travel on a congestible fast mode or on a
congestible slow mode. Users who most value time will use the fast mode. A toll on the slow …

Step-tolling with price-sensitive demand: Why more steps in the toll make the consumer better off

VAC van den Berg - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2012 - Elsevier
Most dynamic models of congestion pricing use fully time-variant tolls. However, in practice,
tolls are uniform over the day, or at most have just a few steps. Such uniform and step tolls …

Congestion tolls and consumer welfare

E Niskanen - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 1987 - Elsevier
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No. 2. pp. 171-174. 1987 Prinkd in Great Britam. 0191-2615187 53.00+ .oO 0 1987 …

Winning or losing from dynamic bottleneck congestion pricing?: The distributional effects of road pricing with heterogeneity in values of time and schedule delay

V Van Den Berg, ET Verhoef - Journal of Public Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the efficiency and distributional impacts of congestion pricing in
Vickrey's (1969) dynamic bottleneck model of congestion, allowing for continuous …

Commuter welfare under peak-period congestion tolls: who gains and who loses?

Y Cohen - International Journal of Transport Economics/Rivista …, 1987 - JSTOR
This paper determines some of the welfare effects on road users of levying peak hour
congestion tolls. Different motorists are assumed to have different valuations of time and …

Coarse tolling with heterogeneous preferences

VAC van den Berg - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper analyses optimal coarse tolling of congestion under heterogeneous preferences,
and in particular its welfare and distributional effects. With coarse tolling, the toll equals a …

Congestion tolling in the bottleneck model with heterogeneous values of time

V Van den Berg, ET Verhoef - Transportation Research Part B …, 2011 - Elsevier
When analysing the effects of transport policies it is important to adequately control for
heterogeneity: previous studies note that ignoring heterogeneity biases the estimated …

Road congestion: a reconsideration of pricing theory

JV Henderson - Journal of Urban Economics, 1974 - Elsevier
In this paper, the effect of congestion tolls upon the pattern of traffic flows is examined.
Congestion tolls influence the individual commuter's decision of when to make a trip …

The value of automobile travel time: implications for congestion policy

J Calfee, C Winston - Journal of public economics, 1998 - Elsevier
Public policy has remained stoutly resistant to the economic profession's call to use
congestion tolls to minimize the social costs from automobile congestion. This paper …

Can tolling help everyone? Estimating the aggregate and distributional consequences of congestion pricing

JD Hall - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Economists have long advocated road pricing as an efficiency-enhancing solution to traffic
congestion, yet it has rarely been implemented because it is thought to create losers as well …