| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1024011 | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review | 2010 | 19 Pages |
Abstract
This paper deals with the following question associated with congestion pricing in a general network with either fixed or elastic travel demand: what is the maximum efficiency loss of a general second-best pricing scheme due to inexact marginal-cost pricing in comparison with the first-best pricing or system optimum case? A formal answer to this question is provided by establishing an inefficiency bound associated with a given road pricing scheme. An application of the methods is provided for the practical trial-and-error implementation of marginal-cost pricing with unknown demand functions.
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Authors
Hai Yang, Wei Xu, Benjamin Heydecker,