Artículo de revista
Pricing vs. slot policies when airport profits matter
Fecha
2010Registro en:
Transportation Research Part B 44 (2010) 381–391
doi:10.1016/j.trb.2009.09.005
Autor
Basso Sotz, Leonardo
Zhang, Anming
Institución
Resumen
This paper analyzes pricing and slot-allocation mechanisms to manage airport capacity
when profits are important to an airport, owing to budget constraints or profit maximization.
We find that congestion pricing and slot trading/slot auctioning do not lead to the
same results. Total traffic is higher under slot auctions than under congestion pricing. Furthermore,
if airport profits matter just marginally, then slot auctions will outperform congestion
pricing in terms of achieving a higher objective-function value. On the other hand,
if airport profits matter sufficiently highly, which mechanism is better is then very much
dependent on parameter values. In particular, congestion pricing may be strongly preferred
over slot auctions for certain parameter values. The impact of congestion-remedy mechanisms
on individual carriers is also examined.