SHORT RUN SUPPLY FUNCTIONS WITH DECREASING USER COSTS

The paper shows, with an example, that user costs on transportation systems need not remain constant or increase with increasing volume, even with design and operational options fixed. The author indicates that supply functions for certain types of transportation facilities and services can exhibit decreasing user costs with increasing volume, even in the short run.

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• Authors:
  • Morlok, E K
• Publication Date: 1979-9

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 183-187
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
  • Volume: 13B
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0191-2615
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01912615

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Costs; Mathematical models; Transportation; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis
• Subject Areas: Economics; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00312139
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 22 1980 12:00AM