Congestion in the bathtub

Mogens Fosgerau

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper presents a model of urban traffic congestion that allows for hypercongestion. Hypercongestion has fundamental importance for the costs of congestion and the effect of policies such as road pricing, transit provision and traffic management, treated in the paper. In the simplest version of the model, the unregulated Nash equilibrium is also the social optimum among a wide range of potential outcomes and any reasonable road pricing scheme will be welfare decreasing. Large welfare gains can be achieved through road pricing when there is hypercongestion and travelers are heterogeneous.

Keywords: dynamic; congestion; urban; traffic; bottleneck; bathtub (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D0 H0 R4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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