{{Infobox economist | name = Herbert Mohring | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1928 <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = Buffalo, New York | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|6|4|1928|7|1|mf=y}} | death_place = Northfield, Minnesota | institution = University of Minnesota <!-- or: | institutions = --> | field = Transportation economics | school_tradition = | alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology | influences = Robert Solow | influenced = | contributions = Mohring effect | awards = }}
'''Herbert Mohring''' (1928 – June 4, 2012) was a transportation economist who taught at the University of Minnesota from 1961–1994.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/catalyst/2012/august/mohring |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919173245/http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/catalyst/2012/august/mohring |archive-date=2015-09-19 |title=In memoriam: Herbert Mohring, congestion pricing pioneer {{!}} University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Deep thinker Herbert Mohring had wide influence |work=Star Tribune |date=June 13, 2012 |url=http://www.startribune.com/obituary-deep-thinker-herbert-mohring-had-wide-influence/158983325/ }}</ref> He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959,<ref>{{cite web |title=University of Minnesota, Department of Economics: Herbert Mohring |accessdate=July 10, 2010 |url=http://www.econ.umn.edu/faculty/mohring/ |archivedate=February 8, 2005 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050208235039/http://www.econ.umn.edu/faculty/mohring/ }}</ref> with a thesis on the life insurance industry supervised by Robert Solow.<ref>[http://library.mit.edu/item/000734613 The life insurance industry: a study of price policy and its determinants]</ref>
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.
== Selected works == * Mohring, Herbert, Optimization and Scale Economies in Urban Bus Transportation, ''American Economic Review'' 62, no. 4 (September 1972): 591-604. * Mohring, Herbert, The Peak Load Problem with Increasing Returns and Pricing Constraints, ''American Economic Review'' 60, no. 4 (September 1970): 693-705. * Mohring, H. and Harwitz, M., ''Highway Benefits: An Analytical Framework'', Ch 2, pp 57–90. (1962)
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== External links == * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020828233628/http://www.econ.umn.edu/faculty/mohring/ |date=August 28, 2002 |title=University home page }}
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