Strategy
Pricing a Public Good: City Bike-Sharing System
Overview
What this challenge is about.
You are to recommend a pricing structure (subscription, per-ride, or hybrid) and specific price points. Consider that the system is a quasi-public good: non-rival but excludable. Address potential free-rider problems and negative externalities like bike shortages. Success is a proposal that balances financial sustainability, usage efficiency, and equitable access. Provide a brief cost-benefit analysis.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
What pricing scheme for a city bike-sharing system maximizes social welfare while ensuring financial viability and equitable access?
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Analyze the characteristics of public goods and market failures in urban mobility
- Design pricing mechanisms that internalize externalities
- Evaluate trade-offs between efficiency and equity in public policy
- Apply cost-benefit analysis to a real-world public project
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