checked baggage fees
Demand and Supply
Why a Bigger Baggage Bin Is Like a New Highway

Whether looking at airlines’ overhead baggage bins or highway construction, we see supply created incentives boosting demand.

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Transportation
Why We Won’t Want a Wider Highway

Intuitively logical for reducing congestion, sometimes adding highway lanes and road building have unintended consequences.

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Economic Thinkers
What You Never Expected To Hear About a Traffic Jam

Since billions have been proposed for infrastructure spending, we should consider some surprising suggestions from researchers on traffic congestion.

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