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Optimal Public Transportation Networks : Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta

Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Gaduh, Arya; Graff, Tilman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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The Political Economy of Transportation Investment

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017

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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Consumption Access and Agglomeration : Evidence from Smartphone Data

Miyauchi, Yuhei; Nakajima, Kentaro; Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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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The Effect of Infrastructure on Worker Mobility : Evidence from High-Speed Rail Expansion in Germany

Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2018

reductions in commuting time between regions on the commuting decisions of workers and their choices regarding where to live and …

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Road Capacity, Domestic Trade and Regional Outcomes

Coşar, A. Kerem; Demir, Banu; Ghose, Devaki; Young, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...

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The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements

Allen, Treb - 2019

We develop a general equilibrium geographic framework to characterize the welfare effect of transportation infrastructure investments. We tackle three distinct but conflating challenges: First, we offer an analytical characterization of the routing problem and, in particular, how infrastructure...

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The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

Jedwab, Remi - 2020

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...

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Railroads of the Raj : Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure

Donaldson, Dave - 2010

How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new light on these questions, this paper uses archival data from colonial India to investigate the impact of India's vast railroad network. Guided by four predictions from a general...

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Valuing Incremental Highway Capacity in a Network

Klaiber, H. Allen - 2010

The importance of increments to an existing highway system depends upon their contributions to the accessibility provided by the existing network. Nearly 40 years ago, Mohring [1965] suggested this logic for planning optimal highway investment programs. He argued it could be implemented by...

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The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion : Evidence from US cities

Duranton, Gilles - 2009

We investigate the relationship between interstate highways and highway vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) in US cities. We find that VKT increases proportionately to highways and identify three important sources for this extra VKT: an increase in driving by current residents; an increase in...

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