Traffic Congestion, Congestion Pricing, and the Price of Using California’s Freeways

April, 2005      Download this brief (PDF).

Bradley Flamm and Gregory Rosston

Bradley Flamm is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where his research focuses on the environmental impacts of transportation systems. He has worked as an environmental planner, a community development specialist, a food security analyst, and a researcher in Berkeley, California; Cleveland, Ohio; Lusaka, Zambia; Dehra Dun, India; and Banyo, Cameroon.

Gregory Rosston is the Deputy Director of SIEPR. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in Economics at Stanford University. Rosston’s research has focused on industrial organization, antitrust and regulation. He has written numerous articles on competition in local telecommunications, implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, auctions and spectrum policy. Prior to joining Stanford University, Rosston served as Deputy Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission and helped with the design and implementation of the FCC’s spectrum auctions. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Stanford.