Toll Pricing with Elastic Demand and Heterogeneous Users

The authors consider a general transportation network where travelers are categorized into classes according to their value-of-time (VOTs). The travel demand of each class in each origin-destination (OD) pair is a known decreasing function of the generalized travel cost to reflect different values of the trips. The authors give an economic interpretation of elastic demand with user heterogeneity. The authors further consider the first-best pricing problem with elastic demand with heterogeneous users. The authors show that such a nonnegative toll always exists, and finding such a toll is simple in that only a convex optimization problem needs to be solved.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Web
  • Pagination: pp 2265-2271
  • Monograph Title: Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk: Quantification, Mitigation, and Management

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01532728
  • Record Type: Publication
  • ISBN: 9780784413609
  • Files: TRIS, ASCE
  • Created Date: Aug 4 2014 6:46PM