| Herbert Mohring | |
| Birth Date: | 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Buffalo, New York |
| Death Place: | Northfield, Minnesota |
| Nationality: | American |
| Institutions: | --> |
| Field: | Transportation economics |
| Alma Mater: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Influences: | Robert Solow |
| Contributions: | Mohring 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.