This paper studies price and production competition between profit-maximizing lirms that use delivered spatial prices. Firms produce an identical good and customers buy from the firm offering the least delivered price. Each firm’s transportation cost is quantity dependent and customers’ demands are price elastic. This contrasts with much of the literature on competitive spatial pricing that ass...

Understanding policy impacts on freight is essential for planners who have overlooked this transport group in the past and must evaluate new congestion alleviation policies with respect to regional economic and social goals. Since urban areas are limited in infrastructure expansion and travel demand continues to rise, congestion pricing is a potentially compelling policy alternative. This thesi...

We develop a general framework for pricing electricity in order to optimally manage the electricity load of societal infrastructures that interact with power systems through their price-responsive electricity load. In such infrastructure systems, electricity is not the sole resource needed to serve users’ needs. Examples include cloud computing infrastructure or electric transportation networks...

Supported by general revenues from the State of Texas. 16. Abstract In the United States, a significant number of individuals depend on the auto mode of transportation. The high auto dependency, in turn, has resulted in high auto travel demand on highways. The resulting traffic congestion levels, surging oil prices, the limited ability to address increased auto travel demand through building a...

The economic, social and environmental benefits generated by the use of urban public transportation infrastructure constitute a complex dynamic urban public transportation infrastructure utilization benefit system. This paper evaluates the coupling coordination among these three benefits taking four Chinese autonomous municipalities as an example. These four cities have large-scale urban public...

BACKGROUND Travel-related barriers to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care, such as commute time and mode of transportation, have been reported in the United States. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to investigate the association between public transportation use and HIV care attendance among a convenience sample of Atlanta-based, HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM), evalu...

Public transportation systems (PTS) are large and complex systems that consist of many modes operated by different agencies to service entire regions. Assessing their performance can therefore be difficult. In this work, we use concepts of Fisher information (FI) to analyse the stability in the performance of PTS in the 372 US urbanized areas (UZA) reported by the National Transit Database. The...

We explore failures of the law of one price across European cities. We extend DevereuxEngel’s (1998) model of local-currency pricing by allowing transportation costs as an alternative explanation for failures of the law of one price. We discuss the welfare costs of law-of-one-price failures. Our empirical work finds that most of the failures of the law of one price in Europe are attributable to...