Adler, Martin W.; van Ommeren, Jos N. - 2015
One of the main unanswered questions in the field of urban economics is to which extent subsidies to public transit are … justified. We examine one of the main benefits of public transit, a reduction in car congestion externalities, the so …-called congestion relief benefit, using quasi-natural experimental data on citywide public transit strikes for Rotterdam. On weekdays, a …