Information and Pricing in Road Transportation

In recent years more emphasis has been placed in transport research on using existing roads as efficiently as possible in order to diminish the impact of traffic congestion. This book describes new theoretical, empirical and simulation models to analyse the impact of information provision to drivers and road pricing on congestion levels. It is the first publication presenting a wide variety of economic models to study information and road pricing effects jointly.

First publication presenting a wide variety of economic models to study information and road pricing effects jointly Explains which policy measures are particularly attractive to resolve traffic congestion and which are not Self contained piece of work that adds many new aspects to the existing literature on traffic congestion

Inhalt
I introduction.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Motorist information systems: An introduction.- 3 Road-pricing: An introduction.- 4 A stochastic route choice framework.- II Theoretical Models.- 5 Welfare economic analysis of motorist information in a one-route network.- 6 Welfare economic analysis of motorist information in a two-route network.- 7 Endogenous demand for motorist information.- 8 Including the costs of uncertainty.- 9 Motorist information in networks with multiple OD-pairs.- 10 Simultaneous congestion-pricing and information provision.- III Simulation Models.- 11 Simulation modelling: Recurrent congestion.- 12 Simulation modelling: Non-recurrent congestion.- IV Empirical Models.- 13 Radio traffic and variable message sign information; An empirical analysis.- 14 Empirical analysis of the work schedule flexibility.- V Conclusions.- 15 Summary, conclusions and future research directions.- Author Index.