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despite strong increases in traffic flow. The welfare benefits in the short run already cover 40% of the widenings' investment …
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This paper estimates the marginal accident externality of driving in Central London by exploiting variation in traffic …. These estimates imply that the marginal external benefit of road safety from an additional kilometre driven is approximately … severity of traffic collisions for other road users by slowing others down and increasing awareness. …
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This paper studies the efficiency impacts of private toll roads in initially untolled networks. The analysis allows for capacity and toll choice by private operators, and endogenizes entry and therewith the degree of competition, distinguishing and allowing for both parallel and serial...
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, and end users, in the context of road transportation. Using a game-theoretical analysis of suppliers' pricing strategies …, we assess the social welfare effects of traffic information under various road markets with different ownership regimes … exactly the same, as traffic information is not strictly complementary to road use. …
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This paper presents a method to assess the distribution of values of time, and values of statistical life, over participants to a stated choice experiment, that does not require the researcher to make an a priori assumption on the type of distribution, as is required for example for mixed logit...
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) as well as the 'public goods' these institutions produce: social protection, safety, environmental quality, education …
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traffic information on traveller behaviour. Specifically, we distinguish between the marginal impact of expected travel times …-phone with traffic information as a reward in our experiment respond to the deviation of actual travel times from the expectation …, which they did not do before. This we interpret as evidence that traffic information indeed affects behaviour. We also find …
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Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has become an established approach for analyzing and comparing efficiency results of corporate organizations or economic agents. It has also found wide application in comparative studies on airport efficiency. The standard DEA approach to comparative airport...
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Rail cost function analysis has been a popular topic in the (empirical) economics literature over the past decades. Most studies find increasing returns to density for rail companies. The results can, however, be quite diverse. Results for the Dutch National Railway company (NS), for instance,...
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This paper studies the equilibrium size of countries. Individuals in smallcountries have greater influence over the nature of political decision mak-ing while individuals in large countries have the advantage of more publicgoods and lower tax rates. The model implies that (i) there exists...
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