Capacity pricing schemes to implement open-access rail in Tanzania

We analyze alternative capacity pricing schemes (access charges) to implement an open-access railway system in Tanzania. We show that the implementation of variable access charges widely used in the railway industry may result in levels of traffic lower than the traffic operated by an integrated rai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pena-Alcaraz, Maite, Perez-Arriaga, Jose Ignacio, Sussman, Joseph M.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103012