Highlights ► The investment decisions (condition, toll-capacity choice) of a new road are studied. ► Various ownership regimes are analyzed and compared. ► Ownership has no effect on the service quality measured in volume–capacity ratio. ► With inelastic total demand, ownership has no influence on the investment decisions. ► Ownership has distinct effect on the investment decisions with elastic total demand.

    Abstract This paper considers the problem of how to select the toll and capacity levels of a new toll road added onto an existing network with a single link. The existing network has various ownership regimes: free, public or private owned toll road. The effects of the ownership regime of the existing network on the capacity and toll selections of the add-on toll road, the efficiency of the whole network in the sense of total social benefit, and the investment incentives of the government to develop the new road are investigated when the traffic demand is elastic or inelastic.


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    Title :

    Capacity and toll choice of an add-on toll road under various ownership regimes


    Contributors:
    Tan, Zhijia (author)


    Publication date :

    2012-04-19


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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