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Flight-Based Congestion Pricing Considering Equilibrium Flights in Airport Airside

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Most of the previous works ignore the fact that equilibrium flights in self-profit maximization scenario are totally different from that in joint profit (social welfare) maximization scenario and take price difference (flight fare difference) between the two scenarios as congestion price, which is a passenger-based method. Most of all, the function of congestion pricing is to alleviate congestion by making airlines reduce flights at peak time. Therefore, the equilibrium flights under self-profit maximization should be the same as the ones under joint profit maximization after congestion prices are tolled. Flight-based congestion pricing method is provided in our paper. The analysis suggests no role for congestion pricing when total real flight production of all airlines is less than the equilibrium flights under joint profit maximization scenario. Otherwise, congestion tolls should be levied to all airlines. Furthermore, congestion price can be determined by solving the corresponding equations system.

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Notes

  1. Governments “force” airlines to “cooperate” with each other by congestion pricing.

  2. Flight of airline 2 is variable under Stackelberg game, while it is given under Cournot game.

  3. The data in Table 4 are provided by Air China and Air Southern China.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71571182), the Social Science and Humanity Fund of the Ministry of Education of China (No. 14YJC630185) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 3122013C001).

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Zhang, BC. Flight-Based Congestion Pricing Considering Equilibrium Flights in Airport Airside. J. Oper. Res. Soc. China 8, 477–491 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40305-020-00306-9

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