Search Results - subject:"Driving restrictions"

Pricing congestion to increase traffic : the case of Bogotá

Montero, Juan-Pablo; Sepúlveda, Felipe; Basso, Leonardo J. - 2025

In September 2021, the city of Bogota' introduced a major market-based reform to its odd-even driving restriction, known as Pico y Placa. Since then, drivers have had the option to pay a daily congestion fee to be exempt from the restriction. We find t hat while the reform increased traffic, it...

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Spatial and time spillovers of driving restrictions: Causal evidence from Lima's Pico y Placa policy

Salgado, Edgar; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2021

Driving restrictions are popular interventions in rapidly urbanizing developing countries. Their relatively inexpensive … need for policy makers to take into account the overall impacts of driving restrictions policies before implementing them. …

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Spatial and Time Spillovers of Driving Restrictions: Causal Evidence from Lima's Pico Y Placa Policy

Salgado, Edgar; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2021

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Enhancing the informational nudge of energy labels : evidence from a DCE in New Delhi

Grover, Charu; Bansal, Sangeeta; Martínez-Cruz, Adán L. - 2021

efficiency label. This number can be interpreted as reflecting the costs imposed by the driving restrictions on car drivers … in this paper suggest that a combination of driving restrictions and a labeling system may deliver an increase in energy … uptake of efficient cars. Thus this paper investigates the potential of combining a labeling system and car driving …

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Spatial and time spillovers of driving restrictions: causal evidence from Lima's Pico Y Placa policy

Salgado, Edgar; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2021

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Spatial and time spillovers of driving restrictions : causal evidence from Lima's Pico y Placa policy

Salgado, Edgar; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2021

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The Effect of Transport Policies on Car Use: A Bundling Model with Applications

Gallego, Francisco; Montero, Juan-Pablo; Salas, Christian - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2013

In an effort to reduce pollution and congestion, Latin American cities have experimented with different policies to persuade drivers to give up their cars in favor of public transport. Borrowing from the bundling literature, the paper presents a novel model of vertical and horizontal...

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Driving Restrictions That Work? Quito's Pico y Placa Program

Carrillo, Paul E.; Malik, Arun S.; Yoo, Jiseon - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2013

Programs to reduce traÂ¢ c congestion and air pollution by restricting use of motor vehicles on working days have generally not met with success given existing studies of such programs in a number of cities. We conduct the Örst study of Quito, Ecuadorís three-year-old Pico y Placa program...

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The effect of Beijing’s driving restrictions on pollution and economic activity

Viard, Brian; Fu, Shihe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

We evaluate the environmental and economic effects of Beijing’s driving restrictions. Based on daily data from multiple … parking garage entrance records. Our results contrast with previous findings of no pollution reductions from driving … restrictions and provide new evidence on commute costs and labor supply. …

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The Effect of Transport Policies on Car Use: Theory and Evidence from Latin American Cities

Gallego, Francisco; Montero, Juan-Pablo; Salas, Christian - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2011

In an effort to reduce air pollution and congestion, Latin American cities have experimented with different policies to persuade drivers to give up their cars in favor of public transport. Two notable examples are the driving restriction program introduced in Mexico-City in November of 1989...

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