Network Neutrality: Lessons from Transportation

David Levinson

No 200902, Working Papers from University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group

Abstract: The politically-charged notion of network neutrality came to the fore in 2005 and 2006, using analogy from transportation as one of the key tools in motivating arguments. This paper examines how the various notions around network neutrality (common carriage, regulation, price discrimination) have played out in the transportation sector, and suggests many of the current arguments fail to understand the nuances of how complex networks actually operate to serve the many demands placed on them.

JEL-codes: H41 N71 N74 R41 R42 R48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Published in Review of Network Economics 8(1) 13-21

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