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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics
Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Urban public transit agencies spend billions of dollars each year on workers, durable capital and energy to supply transportation services. During a time of rising concern about climate change, the urban public transit sector has not significantly reduced its carbon footprint. Using data for the...
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More Roads or Public Transit? Insights from Measuring City-Center Accessibility
Conwell, Lucas J.; Eckert, Fabian; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We propose a theory-inspired measure of the accessibility of a city's center: the size of the surrounding area from … "accessibility zones" for the 109 largest US and European cities, separately for cars and public transit commutes. Compared with … European cities, US cities are half as accessible via public transit and twice as accessible via cars. Car accessibility zones …
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Externalities of Policy-Induced Scrappage : The Case of Automotive Regulations
Forsythe, Connor R.; Jha, Akshaya; Michalek, Jeremy J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Many transportation policies indirectly affect vehicle travel and resulting externalities by inducing changes in vehicle scrappage rates. We leverage the staggered removal of state-level safety inspection programs across the United States within an instrumental variables (IV) framework to...
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