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Does telecommuting reduce commuting emissions?

Marz, Waldemar; Sen, Suphi - 2021

The long-term trend toward more work from home due to digitization has found a strong new driver, the Covid-19 pandemic. The profound change in urban mobility patterns supports the often-held view that reducing the number of commuting trips can lower carbon emissions to a certain degree. We...

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Do land use policies follow road construction

Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Solé-Ollé, Albert; … - 2014

We study whether local land use policies are modified in response to enhanced demand for building generated by a new highway, and examine the extent to which this effect of land use regulations affects building activity. We focus on the case of Spain during the last housing boom (1995-2007). We...

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Express delivery to the suburbs : the effects of transportation in Europe's heterogeneous cities

Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Pasidis, Ilias; … - 2016

novel and provide valuable insights for European regional and transport policies. …

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Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration

Flückiger, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; Larch, Mario; … - 2019 - This version: July 2019

We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic …

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Institutional architecture for financing Pan-Asian infrastructure connectivity

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2017

, a pan-Asian transport connectivity was initiated through, Asian Highway Network and Trans-Asian Railways Network. In …

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Employer-paid parking, mode choice, and suburbanization

Brueckner, Jan K.; Franco, Sofia F. - 2017

This paper constructs a theoretical model that facilitates analysis of the effects of employer-paid parking on mode choice, road investment and suburbanization. The model simplifies urban space by dividing it into two zones (islands), center and suburbs, which are connected by a congested road...

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A tale of two tails : commuting and the fuel price response in driving

Gillingham, Kenneth; Munk-Nielsen, Anders - 2017

distributional effects hamper political acceptance. These distributional effects are especially important in transport, the fastest … lower and upper tails of the work distance distribution. We further estimate the causal effect of public transport - a … critical determinant of the upper tail - and show how public transport access can both reconcile differences in fuel price …

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How large are road traffic externalities in the city? : the highway tunneling in Maastricht, the Netherlands

Tijm, Joep; Michielsen, Thomas; Maarseveen, Raoul van; … - 2018

Infrastructure projects are increasingly aiming to improve liveability, in particular in urban areas. We analyse a specific case in which an existing highway in an urban area was moved underground in order to improve intercity traffic flows and to reduce traffic externalities. As travel times...

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Airline alliances and service quality

Brueckner, Jan K.; Flores-Fillol, Ricardo - 2018

Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in the literature. This paper fills this gap by...

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The organization of international trade

Boddin, Dominik; Stähler, Frank - 2018 - Version of November 19, 2018

This paper discusses how international trade is organized from export to trans-boundary transport to import. All … evidence suggests that the transport sector is independent, may exercise market power and features strong economies of scale …. We develop a model of a transport industry that operates under imperfect competition and economies of scale and two …

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