• Read an article by Kevin M. Guthrie on value-based pricing at the following Internet site for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's recent Scholarly Communication and Technology conference: http://www.arl.org/scomm/scat/guthries.html

• Read about urban transportation issues, including an article about driver support for congestion tolls at the following Internet site maintained by Resources for the Future: http://www.rff.org/intersections/urb_transp.htm

• Many articles and papers are available at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on transfer pricing and multinational firms: http://www.oecd.org/eco/eco/
  
  
• Access financial information on Bell Atlantic at the following Internet site: http://www.verizon.com
  
  
• Read about the development of product life-cycle theory by Conrad Jones at the following Internet site maintained by Booz-Allen and Hamilton: http://www.bah.com/wcb/productlife.html
  
  
• To learn more about yield management, and to access information on yield management programs and expert systems, go to the following Internet site: http://mugca.cc.monash.edu.au/%7Ekfarrell/iymrs/
  

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During times of peak usage of network resources such as highways, mainframe computers, and power transmission lines, providing access to an additional user can have negative impacts on all other users. Congestion or peak-load pricing systems at least partially internalize the external costs of congestion. But while congestion pricing may make economic sense, how can charging commuters higher prices be made politically viable?

Access the following Internet site maintained by the DOT: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/final.htm. Are there alternative solutions to the congestion problem? Also visit the Microsoft Research site at http://research.microsoft.com/research/network/disgame.asp and read the abstract Congestion Pricing for Congestion Avoidance.

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