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A Route Choice Experiment With an Efficient Toll

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John Hartman (University of California Santa Barbara)
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Traffic congestion is a substantial time cost for many urban commuters. This paper studies the response of subjects in an experimental setting in which subjects choose between a short direct route that becomes increasingly congested as more people travel on it and a more indirect route that does not become congested. More specifically, I investigate how subjects respond to the use of a toll that theory predicts will minimize travel time costs. The experimental results reported in this paper show that this toll comes very close to achieving efficient use of the travel network.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara in its series University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series with number 14-07.

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Keywords: congestion; Pigou-Knight-Downs paradox; experiment; toll;

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  1. John Hartman, 2007. "The Relevance of Heterogeneity in a Congested Route Network with Tolls: An Analysis of Two Experiments Using Actual Waiting Times and Monetized Time Costs," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 15-07, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
  2. Ted Bergstrom, 2007. "Teaching Economics Interactively: A Cannibal's Dinner Party," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series 2007c, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
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