Xu, S-X, Liu, R orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-3184, Liu, T-L et al. (1 more author) (2018) Pareto-improving policies for an idealized two-zone city served by two congestible modes. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 117 (Part B). pp. 876-891. ISSN 0191-2615
Abstract
We study urban structure and traffic congestion of a monocentric city by idealizing its suburb and its core as two zones and then exploring what would happen when they are connected by a congestible highway and a crowded railway system. We introduce dynamic congestion effect into commuters’ departure-time and mode choice behaviours, and analyse the endogenous interactions between their travel and residential relocation choices. Studies ignoring dynamic departure-time behaviour show an ambiguous effect of transit improvements to the city. However, we find that transit improvement has a definitive impact on city structure: it increases the residents’ equilibrium utility, at a cost of increased suburb land use. We show that it is possible to design Pareto-improving land-use and transit policies which benefit the residents without causing urban sprawl. We provide analytically the existence conditions of such policies and suggest that a high return of land use tax to subsidize transit improvement is required.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Monocentric city model; Dynamic congestion; Land use tax; Transit subsidy; Urban sprawl; Pareto improving |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Spatial Modelling and Dynamics (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC EP/I010637/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 25 Aug 2017 08:11 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2019 14:59 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.trb.2017.08.010 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:120550 |