- Herbert Mohring
Herbert Dick Mohring is a
transportation economist who taught at theUniversity of Minnesota for many years.He is widely known for his identification of what was dubbed the
Mohring effect ofincreasing returns inpublic transportation .Fact|date=September 2007Mohring and Harwitz (1962) also showed that the revenues from the first-best congestion tax exactly cover the construction costs of highways when highways possess constant returns to scale.
External links
* [http://www.econ.umn.edu/faculty/mohring/ University home page]
Important Works
* Mohring, Herbert, Optimization and Scale Economies in Urban Bus Transportation, "
American Economic Review " 62, no. 4 (September 1972): 591-604.
* Mohring, Herbert, The Peak Load Problem with Increasing Returns and Pricing Constraints, "American Economic Review" 60, no. 4 (September 1970): 693-705.
* Mohring, H. and Harwitz, M., "Highway Benefits: An Analytical Framework", Ch 2, pp 57-90. (1962)
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