This paper examines the impact of Germany's nationwide 9-Euro-Ticket, a temporary almost fare-free transport ticket, on highway passenger traffic. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find a significant reduction of approximately 4.5%, primarily driven by decreased weekend traffic....

Die Infrastruktur der deutschen Autobahnen ist von zentraler Bedeutung für den Wirtschafts-verkehr, den Tourismus und die Mobilität der Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Ein zentraler Bestandteil dieser Infrastruktur sind Haltepunkte entlang der Fernstraßen. Autobahnraststätten und Autohöfe dienen...

Urban primacy in the Indian state of Karnataka is severe, since Bengaluru, the state's capital city, is more than eight times the size of the second biggest city. Our objectives in this paper are to investigate this primacy, estimating Zipf's law, understanding transport networks and...

With the expansion of industrial activities in developing countries like Bangladesh, the purchase of motorized vehicles is also growing in recent days. This increased number of motorized vehicles is creating massive pressure on the logistic movement in industrial areas, and the performance level...

Carter (2024) examines the historical conditions that shape protection versus assimilation for indigenous communities, arguing that state-led conscription programs are one such factor. In a natural experiment leveraging conscription for a 1920s Peruvian highway designed to replicate a...

The recent debates on infrastructure spending have led to renewed interest in the measurement of infrastructure and its effects on growth and well-being. This paper updates estimates of one important type of infrastructure capital—highways and streets. We compare BEA's capital measures with...

This paper builds on a previous paper by the authors (Kornfeld and Fraumeni, 2022) that primarily used U.S. Federal Highway Administration Highway Statistics data to disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types to produce updated estimates of net wealth stocks and...

This paper uses four decades of panel data on Brazilian municipalities to study the separate and joint impacts of highway and electricity infrastructure access on local economic outcomes. The identification strategy employs difference-in-difference estimators with staggered adoption design and...

The technical report will introduce an application to deal with the massive drones' or hydrones departures, navigation, fly, and landing in different destinations. We propose the highway routes system (DHR-System) that depends on the interconnectivity between G5, modern hardware internet system...

Does new road connectivity affect schooling and household spending on teenagers’ human capital development? We investigate this issue in the context of China’s expanding highway system. Using spatial-temporal national highway dataset and CFPS data, this paper employs variations in the timing...

As the world transitions towards electric, connected, and automated vehicles (ECAVs), asset managers continue to prepare physical infrastructure investments needed to accommodate these technologies. With increasing ECAV adoption, the revenues typically earned from vehicle registrations and fuel...

The development of toll roads provides a number of improved services to the road users, connectivity, and their existence can promote the equitable development of a region. The use of toll roads has a variety of impacts on economic issues. The quality of pavement gradually declines along with...

Penology in the Jim Crow South centered on the chain gang. Gangs ostensibly served three purposes: their severity served as a deterrent; their putting convicts to work on roads and other public improvements reduced the taxpayers’ costs of infrastructure; and their discriminatory implementation...

This paper estimates the impact of violence on domestic and international migration in Mexico during 2005-2020. Unlike earlier studies, we use network analysis to quantify changes in the degree of interconnectedness among all municipalities in Mexico and with the US, breaking it down by...

This study estimates the impact of China's National Trunk Highway Network (NTHN) on the formation of new manufacturing firms. Our empirical strategy explored changes in the spatial access of new firms to incumbent firms resulting from expansion of NTHN from 2000 to 2009. Overall, the entry of...

We pose the problem of managing the interstate as an optimal capital stock problem and define user cost as the charge per vehicle mile travelled that rationalizes observed investments in lane miles and pavement quality. We find that user cost is the sum of the opportunity cost of lane miles,...

In the south of Austria, a new public transportation concept with bus stops on highways is being planned and tested, integrating regional public transport into urban mobility systems. The flagship project, which includes the actual construction of a highway bus stop and a survey, is intended to...

Liquidity management is key in industries with variable cash flows. We study how businesses in the highway construction industry manage cash flow by strategically bidding more on work with an earlier payout--a practice known as front-end loading. We find that small contractors, infrequent...

This article studies house-level real estate wealth distribution changes nearby a major interstate highway, comparing values before the announcement of the highway's construction (1940) with those during and shortly after the construction period (1961-74). We also develop Lorenz curves to...

The United States witnessed an unprecedented crime wave in the second half of the twentieth century, with the total index crime rate more than tripling between 1960-1980. Little is known about the causes of this surge in criminal activity across the country. This paper investigates the role...

Highway construction occurs nowadays mainly through widening of existing roads rather than building new roads. This paper documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using longitudinal microdata from highway detector loops in the...

This paper quantifies the value of US highways. We develop a multisector general equilibrium model with many locations in the United States (i.e., counties) and many countries. In the model, producers choose shipping routes subject to domestic and international trade costs, endogenous...

The paper compares performance of the Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) highways relative to the traditionally build highways. The focus is on the comparison of the project delays (time overrun) and cost overruns for the two types of projects. The paper also examines analyse the fiscal and...

Highway construction occurs nowadays mainly through widening of ex- isting roads rather than building new roads. This paper documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using longitudinal microdata from highway detector loops in the...

Infrastructure development programs, and specifically road building aid programs, have long been implemented alongside military interventions in conflict-affected countries. A common aim of these programs has been to reduce violence through increased economic development. This paper examines the...

There are two kinds of traffic congestion at a toll plaza on a highway: congestion in the approach zone and congestion in the departure zone, which has received less attention. The performance improvement in the departure zone can directly reduce congestion in that area and indirectly increase...

Previous work on transportation investments has focused on average impacts in high- and middle-income countries. We estimate average and heterogeneous effects in a poor continent, Africa, using roads and cities data spanning 50 years in 39 countries. Using changes in market access due to distant...

We examine how highway accessibility influences local employment outcomes. We exploit the stagewise expansion of the "Baltic Sea highway", the largest contiguous highway construction project in Germany since 1945. Results from difference-indifferences estimations and an event study approach show...

The United States witnessed an unprecedented crime wave in the second half of the twentieth century, with the total index crime rate more than tripling between 1960-1980. Little is known about the causes of this surge in criminal activity across the country. This paper investigates the role...

Im Jahr 2022 wurde der Verkehr in Deutschland von einem Energiepreisschock getroffen. Trotz Tankrabatt lagen die Zapfsäulenpreise für Diesel zwischen Mitte Mai und Ende August 2022 im Durchschnitt um 42 beziehungsweise 18 Prozent über den Werten des Vorjahres. Für das vorliegende Papier...

The interaction of debt and economic performance has been getting more at-tention over the last few years. However, models making provision for debt are still out-numbered by models completely ignoring it. This paper is the first one to analyze therelationship between household debt (in the form...

This paper analyzes the allocation of the total toll collected in a highway among its segments. Based on different toll charging rules, we propose the Segments Equal Sharing method, the Exits Equal Sharing method, and the Entrances Equal Sharing method. We provide axioms and characterize these...