Imperfect competition and congestion in the City



intermediate input from the center to the subcenters. The total usage on road
i, expressed in car equivalent, is:

ρi = N [(καh + αd) Pd + αwpw] .                (25)

where κ represents the car equivalent of a truck carrying the homogenous good.
The α
0 s can also to some extent take into account the difference in timing of
the three types of road use.

We assume that the relation between travel cost, ti , and total activity on
the road i, ρ
i , is given by:

ti = t + δρi
s

(26)


where s is the capacity of the road measured in car equivalent (for the time
period considered in the model), and δ is a coefficient that translates waiting
time and schedule delay costs in equivalent queueing time. The first term rep-
resents the transport time in the absence of any congestion. The second term
in (26) represents the variable travel cost. This expression is the reduced form
of the bottleneck model [4] where road users decide on their trip timing (with
no congestion pricing).

Recall the market clearing condition (13): Pid = Piw . Equation (26) reduces
to:

NN

ti = t + δ—αPid = t + δ—αPw,

(27)


where α καh + αd + αw . In the symmetric case, Piw = Pid =1/n and the
travel cost, denoted by
te , is the same on all routes:

te = t + δ N α.

(28)


ns

6.2 Demand for goods and supply of labour

With congestion, the indirect utility of a consumer working at i and consuming
at k is U
ik = Ωik + wi pk + μwεi + μdεk, where:

⅛k = ( αwtk - β) + θ (1 - β) + h - αdti + (1 /N ) X X πl - T.

i=1...n

Using the same notation as in the non-congested case, this expression can we
written as:

Uik = Ω Λw Pw ΛdPd + Wi Pk + μw εi + μdεfc,         (29)

where Ω is given by equation (9), Λw = αwδNα and Λd = αdδNα.

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