Hub congestion pricing: Discriminatory passenger charges

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• 作者：Ming Hsin Lin^a ; ^{linmh@osaka-ue.ac.jp" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Anming Zhang^b
• 关键词：Hub-spoke network ; Hub congestion ; Airport pricing ; Per-flight and per-passenger charges ; Airport privatization ; Economies of traffic density
• 刊名：Economics of Transportation
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：5
• 期：Complete
• 页码：37-48
• 全文大小：633 K

文摘

This paper investigates airport determination of per-flight and per-passenger charges in a hub-spoke network. The hub airport is congestible and it levies a per-flight charge on its carriers and discriminatory per-passenger charges on the local and connecting passengers. Our main results are: (i) the socially optimal per-passenger charges should take the higher congestion contribution by connecting passengers into account, leading to a higher charge on a connecting passenger than on a local passenger; (ii) generally, the social optimum cannot be achieved when the hub only levies a per-flight charge on carriers; (iii) the optimal per-connecting passenger charge should be lower (higher, respectively) than the per-local passenger charge when the per-flight charge is large (small, respectively); and (iv) a profit-maximizing hub can impose lower per-connecting passenger charges as compared to per-local passenger charges, owing to its market power, and this possibility is further strengthened by economies of traffic density.