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

taxation in reducing congestion by considering a natural experiment created by the progressive January 1, 2012 Chicago parking … percent aggregate reduction in vehicle trips. It is concluded that parking taxes can help mitigate congestion externalities …Growing vehicle use and congestion externalities have led many to consider alternative congestion pricing mechanisms …

significance of these responses to congestion externalities, and argue that they need to be taken into account in designing … internalization instruments. We consider labor-leisure, regional labor mobility and house price responses to congestion externalities …

Non-recurrent congestion is frequently caused by accidents and other incidents. We estimate the causal effect of … incident duration on drivers’ time losses through changes in non-recurrent road congestion on Dutch highways. We demonstrate … that incident duration has a strong positive, but concave, effect on non-recurrent congestion. The duration elasticity of …

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 …

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 …

of the road traffic system and also bind resources. Therefore, apart from ethical aspects, road accidents have an … enormous influence on the social acceptability of road traffic as well as on a country's economic progress. In 2004, the costs … that have been achieved in the past are encouraging - the number of road traffic fatalities is at its lowest since WWII …

We examine the eff ect of citywide parking policy on parking and traffic demand. Using a large increase in on …, which indicates that parking prices are effective at reducing congestion in the evening peak, but lesser in the morning peak. …-street parking prices for the city of Amsterdam, we show that the policy caused a substantial drop in on-street parking demand, which …

This paper analyzes the provision of residential parking in a monocentric city, with the ultimate goal of appraising … the desirability and effects of regulations such as a minimum-parking requirement (MPR) per dwelling. The analysis … considers three different regimes for provision of parking space: surface parking, underground parking, and structural parking …

labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing traffic congestion during rush hours leads to a more urbanized economy …