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amount of congestion and travel time. We find that this result does not hold if capacity and toll setting are separate stages …
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The goal of this paper is the estimation of the effect of accidents on traffic congestion and vice versa. In order to … causal effect of accidents on traffic congestion and vice versa. The estimation draws on panel data methods that have … congestion and road accidents would yield multiplicative benefits for policies that aim at reducing either of them. In addition …
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The paper examines the impact of communication cost reductions on growth and welfare by means of an endogenous spatial growth model. Policy makers having to decide upon transport policies often claim certain policies such as infrastructure investments to have growth stimulating effects that...
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, congestion and traffic accidents. While the negative environmental impacts of truck activities have been extensively analyzed … trucks is not only adequate for mitigating an important source of congestion and pollution, but that the implementation of …
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. Furthermore, traffic congestion wastes time, money, and energy. The most concerning issue related to continuing dependence on car … warming, and traffic congestion. By using a data set from Japan, this paper aims to estimate the social costs of vehicular … Japan: 1) traffic accidents, 2) air pollution, 3) noise, 4) global warming, and 5) traffic congestion. Third, by using a …
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The provision of public transit is thought to reduce travel time losses that are due to car congestion. For this reason …, it is economically justified to subsidise public transit from a welfare perspective as it creates a congestion …-relief benefit. The main goal of this paper is to quantify the congestion-relief benefit of public transit for Rotterdam by analysing …
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The 2001 White Paper and its development in the 3rd European Road Safety Action Program, represent a turning point in the history of the European Road Safety Policy. The possible determinants of the road mortality in the EU over (2000-2009) are examined using a panel data. Our main finding is...
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