causal effect of accidents on traffic congestion and vice versa. The estimation draws on panel data methods that have …The goal of this paper is the estimation of the effect of accidents on traffic congestion and vice versa. In order to … do this, I use "big data" of highway traffic and accidents in England for the period 2007-2013. The data exhibit some …

29 European countries during the period 1961- 2011. We have included different measures of highways and railways on … suburbanization and we have estimated their joint effect using a panel IV approach. Our main specification, where we jointly estimate … the effect of highways and railways, suggest that an additional high- way ray displaced approximately 6% of the central …

2013. The highway connects the east and west of Germany. This dramatically alleviated congestion on nearby roads as well as … completion and the associated relief of nearby road congestion. We control for potential negative effects due to additional noise …

paper documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using … despite strong increases in traffic flow. The welfare benefits in the short run already cover 40% of the widenings' investment … costs. Our paper contributes to an explanation why countries invest in roadworks even when the fundamental law of congestion …

Transportation economists apply different labor supply models when studying anti-congestion policy: (i) endogenous … outcome of anti-congestion policies that change the relative cost of labor supply margins, and, thus, may affect decisions on … presence of other taxes when there is a congestion externality. We find surprisingly strong differences in quantity and sign …

road transport. In heavily congested areas, targeted charges are a cost-effective way of reducing congestion. Fiscal …

of the road traffic system and also bind resources. Therefore, apart from ethical aspects, road accidents have an …Road safety forms a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable mobility. Road accidents have an effect on the performance … enormous influence on the social acceptability of road traffic as well as on a country's economic progress. In 2004, the costs …

We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for … schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between … schools near highways, where one school has had greater levels of pollution because it is downwind of a highway. Students who …