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Spatial commuting patterns of German regional labour markets : a sustainability perspective

Tedeschi, Federico; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between commuting and spatial labour market developments in the … commuting flows, public transport, especially the train, is a more environmentally-benign mode of transport, compared with the … system, which can provide more opportunities for sustainable commuting patterns, may lead to favourable employment …

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Should subsidies to urban passenger transport be increased? : A spatial CGE analysis for a German metropolitan area

Tscharaktschiew, Stefan; Hirte, Georg - 2011

predominantly automobile. In contrast, pure commuting subsidies hardly affect aggregate urban welfare, but distributional effects … ; commuting …

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Should Subsidies to Urban Passenger Transport be Increased? A Spatial CGE Analysis for a German Metropolitan Area

Hirte, Georg - 2014

predominantly automobile. In contrast, pure commuting subsidies hardly affect aggregate urban welfare, but distributional effects …

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Optimal Public Transportation Networks : Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta

Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Gaduh, Arya; Graff, Tilman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying on interconnections as opposed to direct service. These choices, in turn, depend on individual preferences for waiting times, travel times, and transfers. We...

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Weather and travel time of public transport trips

Sabir, Muhammad; Koetse, Mark; Ommeren, Jos van; … - 2010

. The associated welfare loss is 53 eurocent per commuting trip per person made by train and 76 eurocent per commuting trip … per person made by bus, tram and metro. Rain strongly affects the speed of bus, tram and metro commuting trips on … congested routes. The associated welfare loss is 1.15 euro per commuting trip per person. …

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Does public transit reduce car travel externalities? : quasi-natural experiments' evidence from transit strikes

Adler, Martin; Ommeren, Jos van - 2015

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...

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Does public transit reduce car travel externalities?

Adler, Martin W.; Ommeren, Jos van - 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...

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Questioning the spatial association between the spread of COVID-19 and transit usage in Italy

Borsati, Mattia; Nocera, Silvio; Percoco, Marco - 2020

excess mortality in Italy attributable to the spread of COVID-19. We found that places characterised by larger commuting …

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Mobility Habits of the Cross Border Commuters in Geneva : Who Uses Public Transport?

Kouti, Rhyem - 2010

This paper describes mobility habits of cross border commuters and its determinants in the canton of Geneva, with special emphasis on the the use of public transports. At least one fifth of Geneva's labour force is composed by cross border workers coming from France. Our first findings show that...

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Commuting to Work in Cities : Bus, Car, or Train?

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2022

In this paper, we study the commuting behavior of citizens living in or near a city who must decide how to get to work …

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