Congestion Pricing with Heterogeneous Travelers: A General-Equilibrium Welfare Analysis

摘要: Traffic congestion pricing is studied using a general-equilibrium framework that incorporates public goods expenditures, an income tax, government budget constraint, and preferences for equity. Individuals differ with respect to wages, values of travel time, the characteristics their vehicles. Formulae optimal tolls are derived decomposed reveal separate influences individual vehicle heterogeneity, road network effects, fiscal effects equity concerns. Using example various tolling regimes considered, defined by how much tolled, whether differentiated route, characteristics.