Arbeitspapier

Teleworking and Congestion: A Dynamic Bottleneck Analysis

We analyze the welfare effects of part-day teleworking on road traffic congestion in the context of Vickrey's dynamic bottleneck model. Endogenous decisions to become equipped with a teleworking-enabling technology change the scheduling of arrival times at work for equipped drivers and, due to congestion externalities, affects travel costs of all drivers. We show that even costless teleworking might be marginally welfare reducing, after reaching the optimal penetration level, as an equipped driver imposes a higher travel externality on other equipped drivers than unequipped drivers do. We study various possible market configurations for the supply of the technology, and find that private monopolistic supply of the technology might yield a higher social welfare than perfectly competitive supply.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 11-096/3

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Externalities
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
Transportation Economics: Government Pricing and Policy
Thema
traffic congestion
teleworking
bottleneck model
Verkehrsstau
Telearbeit
Bottleneck
Wohlfahrtsanalyse

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gubins, Sergejs
Verhoef, Erik T.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2011

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gubins, Sergejs
  • Verhoef, Erik T.
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2011

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