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 …

Congestion, air pollution and noise caused by increasing use of the car are nowadays
perceived as some of the most pressing problems in urban areas. The introduction of road …

Economists have been recommending congestion tolls as a means of regulating urban
traffic congestion for many years (Vickrey, 1963; UK Ministry of Transport, 1964? the Smeed …

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The incidence of an optimal short-run congestion toll is investigated using an equilibrium
model of modal choice and congestion on a highway corridor served by express bus transit …

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 …

It is important that alternative congestion pricing schedules are compared with respect to a
broad spectrum of their effects. This paper uses an equilibrium simulation model of peak …

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 …

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 …

The starting point of this paper is to consider that there is no general answer to the question
of the equity of urban road pricing. We therefore simulate and compare the distributional …