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Parking Fees , Congestion , And Consumer Welfare
Congestion can be caused by through-traffic and by traffic destined for the area where consumers park. It may appear that congestion should be reduced by increasing the price of parking. This paper shows that if road usage is suboptimally priced, then a lump-sum parking fee can increase welfare, but a parking fee per unit time does not. Indeed, an increase in the price of parking induces each p...
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is one of ten regional units mandated by Congress and established in Fall 1988 to support research, education, and training in surface trans-portation° The UC Center serves federal Region IX and is supported by matching grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and the University. Based on the Berkeley Campus, UCTC draws upon exis...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Regional Science and Urban Economics
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0166-0462
DOI: 10.1016/0166-0462(92)90028-y