Herbert Mohring

Herbert Mohring
Born1928
Buffalo, New York
DiedJune 4, 2012(2012-06-04) (aged 83)
Northfield, Minnesota
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldTransportation economics
InstitutionUniversity of Minnesota
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
InfluencesRobert Solow
ContributionsMohring effect

Herbert Mohring (1928 – June 4, 2012) was a transportation economist who taught at the University of Minnesota from 1961–1994.[1][2] He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959,[3] with a thesis on the life insurance industry supervised by Robert Solow.[4]

He is widely known for his identification of what was dubbed the Mohring effect of increasing returns in public transportation (see: Mohring (1972) for details).

Mohring and Harwitz (1962) also showed that the revenues from the first-best congestion tax exactly cover the capacity costs (which include depreciation and capital costs, but not investment costs) of highways when highways possess constant returns to scale.

  1. ^ "In memoriam: Herbert Mohring, congestion pricing pioneer | University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies". Archived from the original on 2015-09-19.
  2. ^ "Obituary: Deep thinker Herbert Mohring had wide influence". Star Tribune. June 13, 2012.
  3. ^ "University of Minnesota, Department of Economics: Herbert Mohring". Archived from the original on February 8, 2005. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
  4. ^ The life insurance industry: a study of price policy and its determinants