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Congestion Tolling and Urban Spatial Structure
Author(s) -
Arnott Richard
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1467-9787
pISSN - 0022-4146
DOI - 10.1111/0022-4146.00105
Subject(s) - urban spatial structure , urban structure , transport engineering , urban planning , civil engineering , engineering
According to the standard model of urban traffic congestion and urbanspatial structure, congestion tolling results in a more concentrated city. In recent years, a new model of rush‐hour urban auto congestion has been developed that incorporates trip‐timing decisions—the bottleneck model. In the simplest bottleneck model optimal congestion tolling without toll‐revenue redistribution has no effect on trip price because the efficiency gainsexactly equal the toll revenue collected. Optimal congestion tolling then has no effect on urban spatial structure. This paper formalizes and extends this result.