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Curbing Excess Sprawl with Congestion Tolls and Urban Boundaries

Anas, Alex; Rhee, Hyok-Joo - EconWPA - 2004

and the time spent on them. Un-priced traffic congestion causes an excess urban sprawl reflected in an average personal … daily travel time 13% or 8 minutes too long. Efficiency gains that curb this excess sprawl come from congestion tolls on … efficient boundaries increase congestion and tolls are still needed to reduce travel times. …

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Speed and income

Fosgerau, Mogens - EconWPA - 2004

The relationship between speed and income is established in a micro- economic model focusing on the trade-off between travel time and the risk of receiving a penalty for exceeding the speed limit. This is used to determine when a rational driver will choose to exceed the speed limit. The...

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Commuting in small towns in rural areas: the case of St Andrews.

Hole, Arne R.; FitzRoy, Felix R. - EconWPA - 2003

Since many rural commuters depend on the private car due to lack of convenient public transport, car reduction policies designed for large cities with ample public transport may be unsuitable for smaller towns. In particular, pricing policies designed to encourage public transport use may be...

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Investigating the distribution of the value of travel time savings

Fosgerau, Mogens - EconWPA - 2004

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Forecasting the demand for an employee Park and Ride service using commuters’ stated choices.

Hole, Arne Risa - EconWPA - 2003

This paper uses Stated Choice (SC) data to forecast the demand for an employee Park and Ride service. Since it is well known that SC data contain sources of variation not present in Revealed Preference (RP) data we pay special attention to the scaling of the SC model. The results show that the...

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Investigating the distribution of the value of travel time savings

Fosgerau, Mogens - EconWPA - 2004

The distribution of the value of travel time savings (VTTS) is investigated employing various nonparametric techniques on a large, high quality data set. When background variables are not included in the model it is found that the right 13% tail of the distribution is not observed and hence the...

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Economies of Density and Congestion in the Sharing Economy

Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata; Zhang, Haimeng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The sharing economy for a wide range of goods and services is expanding across the world. To direct the benefits from sharing capital services towards small-scale producers, governments in the developing world are increasingly intervening in fast-growing mechanization rental markets. However,...

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Welfare Estimates of Shifting Peak Travel

Hahn, Robert William; Metcalfe, Robert D.; Tam, Hiu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

travel to different periods, which is explained by differences in demand and congestion characteristics. Finally, we show …

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The Fast, the Slow, and the Congested : Urban Transportation in Rich and Poor Countries

Akbar, Prottoy; Couture, Victor; Duranton, Gilles; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

estimate comparable city-level indices of travel speed and congestion. Most of the variation in urban travel speed is across …. These effects operate by increasing uncongested speed, not by reducing congestion …

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Infrastructure Inequality : Who Pays the Cost of Road Roughness?

Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L.; Kreindler, Gabriel E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration data from Uber rides across millions of American roads. Our measure correlates strongly and positively with other...

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