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 …

An ordinary differential equation formulation of the bottleneck model with user heterogeneity

WX Wu, HJ Huang - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2015 - Elsevier
Considering heterogeneous values of time and schedule delay early, in this paper we
develop an ordinary differential equation formulation of the bottleneck model without …

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 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 …

Step tolling with bottleneck queuing congestion

CR Lindsey, VAC Van den Berg, ET Verhoef - Journal of Urban Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
In most dynamic traffic congestion models, congestion tolls must vary continuously over time
to achieve the full optimum. This is also the case in Vickrey (1969)'bottleneck model'. To …

Constrained optimization for bottleneck coarse tolling

D Xu, X Guo, G Zhang - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2019 - Elsevier
We study the optimal single-step coarse toll design problem for the bottleneck model where
the toll level and tolling duration have maximum acceptable upper bounds and the …

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 …

Departure time choice equilibrium and tolling strategies for a bottleneck with stochastic capacity

J Long, H Yang, WY Szeto - Transportation Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper develops a bottleneck model in which the capacity of the bottleneck is assumed
to be stochastic and follow a general distribution that has a positive upper bound. The user …

Step tolling in an activity-based bottleneck model

ZC Li, WHK Lam, SC Wong - Transportation Research Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the step tolling problem in an activity-based bottleneck model in
which activity scheduling utilities of commuters at home and at work vary by the time of day …

Optimal tolls for multi-class traffic: Analytical formulations and policy implications

J Holguín-Veras, M Cetin - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper puts together an analytical formulation to compute optimal tolls for multi-class
traffic. The formulation is comprised of two major modules. The first one is an optimization …