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In 2022, Germany introduced a temporary 9-euro monthly ticket for unlimited local and regional public transport. We investigate its impact on mobility patterns, including increased public transport usage, reduced car traffic, and rail network congestion. Using difference-in-difference and...
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Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs. Furthermore, to cope up with the reduced export demand from advanced economies arising out of the ongoing financial crisis, the region needs to enhance its connectivity...
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The Pacific Islands face the highest disaster risk, in per capita terms, globally. Examples of catastrophic events in the region include the 2009 tsunami in Samoa, the 2014 floods in the Solomon Islands, and the 2015 cyclone Pam in Vanuatu. Even without these catastrophic events, countries in...
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construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police …
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Pricing greenhouse gases is widely understood as the most efficient approach for mitigating climate change, yet distributional effects hamper political acceptance. These distributional effects are especially important in transport, the fastest growing sector for greenhouse gas emissions. Using...
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We identify and examine a novel welfare channel of fuel economy standards through the in-teraction with public transit and households’ location choices. A stricter emission standard for cars decreases the marginal cost of driving and triggers a shift in modal choice from public to private...
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This paper analyzes the provision of residential parking in a monocentric city, with the ultimate goal of appraising … the desirability and effects of regulations such as a minimum-parking requirement (MPR) per dwelling. The analysis … considers three different regimes for provision of parking space: surface parking, underground parking, and structural parking …
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We develop a positive theory of pricing car access (by parking fees or cordon tolls) to downtown commercial districts … lobbying contribution schedules than superstores, which induces the government to underprice central roads and parking spaces … higher or lower parking fees, depending on their relative concern for the vitality of the central district. As a consequence …
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For many years, Donald Shoup has been advocating cashing out free and underpriced curbside parking. How should this be … implemented in practice, taking into account the stochasticity of curbside parking vacancies? Shoup has proposed setting … neighborhood/period of the day-specific meter rates such that a common target (average) curbside parking occupancy rate is achieved …
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-state hypercongested equilibrium can be stable. For a particular structural model of downtown traffic flow and parking, this paper … congestion ; cruising for parking ; on-street parking ; hypercongestion …
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