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Rationing and Pricing Strategies for Congestion Mitigation Under Heterogeneous Users and Vehicle Types

Accession Number:

01516469

Record Type:

Component

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper extends previous research on rationing and pricing policies analysis models by explicitly modeling the role of public transit. The model follows the indirect utility approach and adopts a linear form for the demand function. This effort differs this paper from an early effort of the authors, and allows policy makers to estimate the market share of different modes and the choice of different vehicles among drivers. Therefore, it allows the consideration of differentiated rationing and pricing strategies towards different user groups. By combining individual vehicle ownership and usage models with a network supply model, market equilibria can be derived. Welfare impact of different policies can be assessed through investigation of compensating variation under different policies. This paper provides a powerful tool to support the welfare analysis of various rationing and pricing strategies for congestion mitigation in mega-cities.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE20 Transportation Economics.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-5335

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Zhu, Shanjiang
Du, Longuyuan
Li, Meng
Zhang, Lei

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References

Subject Areas:

Economics; Finance; Highways; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-5335

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:52PM