Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86815 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 11-059/3
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We analyse congestion pricing in a road and rail network with heterogeneous users. On the road there is bottleneck congestion. In the train there is crowding congestion. We separately analyse proportional heterogeneity that varies the values of time and schedule delay scalarly in fixed proportions and ratio heterogeneity that is in the ratio of value of time to value of schedule delay. We analyse first-best pricing and second-best pricing on only road or rail. More ratio heterogeneity lowers the relative efficiency of welfare maximisation by pricing only the road. This relative efficiency also decreases with proportional heterogeneity. Conversely, in previous research with two parallel roads, the relative efficiency of single-link pricing increased with proportional heterogeneity. This difference is caused by two road being perfect substitutes, while car and train are imperfect substitutes. The welfare gain of congestion pricing in the train is les s affected by heterogeneity. However, the relative efficiency of profit maximisation on rail only decreases with proportional and ratio heterogeneity. There are marked differences in the distributional effects on road and rail. On the road, pricing is generally more beneficial for the user the higher her value of time or schedule delay is. In the train, pricing has no distributional effects or is less beneficial the higher a user's value of time or schedule delay is.
Subjects: 
Congestion Pricing
Car Travel
Train Travel
Heterogeneity in Value of Time
Heterogeneity in Value of Schedule Delay
Substitute Modes
JEL: 
D62
H23
L11
R41
R48
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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