Inside the queue:: hypercongestion and road pricing in a continuous time–continuous place model of traffic congestion

《Inside the queue:: hypercongestion and road pricing in a continuous time–continuous place model of traffic congestion》

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作者单位: Department of Spatial Economics, Free University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands"}]}]}],"floats":[],"footnotes":[],"affiliations":{"aep-affiliation-id2":{"#name":"affiliation","$":{"id":"aep-affiliation-id2;Department of Spatial Economics, Free University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands"}]}},"attachments":[],"correspondences":{},"scopusAuthorIds":{},"articles":{}},"authorMetadata":[],"banner":{"expanded":false},"biographies":{},"body":{},"browser":{"name":"IE","engine":"Trident

摘要: This paper develops a continuous-time–continuous-place dynamic economic model of traffic congestion, based on car-following theory. The model integrates two archetype congestion technologies used in the economics literature: ‘static flow congestion’ and ‘dynamic bottleneck congestion.’ With endogenous departure times and a bottleneck along the route, ‘hypercongestion’ arises as a dynamic equilibrium phenomenon on the upstream road segment. Congestion tolls based on an intuitive dynamic and space-varying generalization of the standard Pigouvian tax rule can hardly be improved upon. A naı̈ve application of a toll schedule based on Vickrey's bottleneck model performs much worse and reduces welfare in the numerical model.