Mathematical and Economic Theory of Road Pricing

Abstract

Introduction -- Fundamentals of user-equilibrium problems -- First-best road pricing problems -- Second-best road pricing problems: a sensitivity analysis based approach -- Second-best road pricing problems: a gap function based approach -- Discriminatory and anonymous road pricing -- Social and spatial equities and revenue redistribution -- Pricing, capacity choice and financing -- Simultaneous determination of optimal toll levels and locations -- Sequential pricing experiments with limited information -- Bounding the efficiency gain or loss of road pricing -- Dynamic road pricing: single and parallel bottleneck models -- Dynamic road pricing: general network models.