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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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Will politics lead to over-building or under-building of transportation projects? In this paper, we develop a model of infrastructure policy in which politicians overdo things that have hidden costs and underperform tasks whose costs voters readily perceive. Consequently, national funding of...
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their counterfactual implications. Applying our methodology to US Commuting Zones, we find that difference …
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Diesel emissions from school buses expose children to high levels of air pollution; retrofitting bus engines can substantially reduce this exposure. Using variation from 2,656 retrofits across Georgia, we estimate effects of emissions reductions on district-level health and academic achievement....
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evidence on the role of these commuting flows in supporting such concentrations of economic activity. Steam railways … buildings in Greater London by 20 percent or more, and brings down commuting into the City of London from more than 370,000 to …
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now working from home, including 35.2% who report they were commuting and recently switched to working from home. In … between the fraction in a state still commuting to work and the fraction working from home. We find that the share of people …
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We study optimal dynamic lockdowns against Covid-19 within a commuting network. Our framework integrates canonical … districts before gradual relaxation, while in Seoul it imposes low temporal but large spatial variation. Actual commuting …
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-remote households in the same commuting zone. Remote households' higher housing expenditures arise from larger dwellings (more rooms …-average housing costs, and sorting within-commuting zone to suburban or rural areas was not economically meaningful. Using the pre …
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location of service-sector establishments to measure commuting and non-commuting trips within the Greater Tokyo metropolitan … area. We show that non-commuting trips are frequent, more localized than commuting trips, strongly related to the … changes in travel patterns within the city (because of the different geography of commuting and non-commuting trips) …
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We show how to use commuting flows to infer the spatial distribution of income within a city. A simple workplace choice … model predicts a gravity equation for commuting flows whose destination fixed effects correspond to wages. We implement this … data, yet achieves comparable predictive power. We show that hartals (transportation strikes) in Dhaka reduce commuting …
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