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transportation equilibria through its choice of public transit policies--prices and frequencies--as well as road pricing. The … construct a new dataset that comprehensively captures transportation choices. We find that road pricing alone leads to large … welfare gains by reducing externalities, but at the expense of consumers (travelers), whose surplus falls even if road pricing …
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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 2000s. Using spatially disaggregated data on road upgrades and domestic …
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streets. We compare BEA's capital measures with more readily understood physical measures of road and lane miles, road quality …
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road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration data from Uber rides across millions of American roads. Our … measure correlates strongly and positively with other measures of road roughness where they are available, negatively with … driver speed, and we find road repair events decrease roughness and increase speeds. We measure drivers' willingness …
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We predict the amount, share, and value of land dedicated to roadways within and across 316 US Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Despite the amount and value of land dedicated to roadway, our study provides the first such estimate across a broad range of metropolitan areas. Our basic...
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We exploit the introduction of electronic toll collection, (E-ZPass), which greatly reduced both traffic congestion and vehicle emissions near highway toll plazas. We show that the introduction of E-ZPass reduced prematurity and low birth weight among mothers within 2km of a toll plaza by 10.8%...
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This paper tests the hypothesis that the salience of a tax system affects equilibrium tax rates. To do this, I analyze how toll rates change after toll facilities adopt electronic toll collection. Unlike manual toll collection, in which the driver must hand over cash at the toll collection...
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towards motor vehicle taxes based on car use. Ownership taxes reduce the number of cars on the road, leaving the price per … trip largely unaffected. Use taxes such as fuel taxes and road use charges decrease the price of trips without necessarily …
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More stringent fuel economy standards and increased market penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) present challenges to federal policy makers who historically have relied on motor vehicle fuel excise taxes to fund highway projects. This paper considers the distributional implications of a...
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Developing country megacities suffer from severe road traffic congestion, yet the level of congestion is not a direct …
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