Price vs. quantity-based approaches to airport congestion management

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brueckner, Jan K.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Irvine
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.02.009
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 681-690
• 关键词: Airport congestion; Slot; Externality

摘要

This paper analyzes price and quantity-based approaches to management of airport congestion, using a model where airlines are asymmetric and internalize congestion. Under these circumstances, optimal congestion tolls are differentiated across carriers, and a uniformity requirement on airport charges (as occurs when slots are sold or tolls are Uniform) distorts carrier flight choices. Flight volumes tend to be too low for large carriers and too high for small carriers. But quantity-based regimes, where the airport authority allocates a fixed number of slots via free distribution or an auction, lead carriers to treat total flight volume (and thus congestion) as fixed, and this difference generates an efficient outcome as long as the number of slots is optimally chosen. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.