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Tendências e desigualdades da mobilidade urbana no Brasil I: O uso do transporte coletivo e individual
Pereira, Rafael H. M.; Warwar, Lucas; Parga, João … - 2021
In this study we examine how the use of private and public transport has changed since the early 2000s in Brazilian cities. We analyzed data on the changing patterns of consumption of transportation goods and services by Brazilian families over the last 20 years. We also analyzed how urban...
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Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam
Ostermeijer, Francis; Koster, Hans RA; Nunes, Leonardo; … - 2021
-street parking prices for the city of Amsterdam, we show that the policy caused a substantial drop in on-street parking demand, which …
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Parking Taxes as a Second Best Congestion Pricing Mechanism
Miller, Sebastián; Wilson, Riley - 2015
Growing vehicle use and congestion externalities have led many to consider alternative congestion pricing mechanisms, as road pricing often has high infrastructural costs and faces public opposition. This paper explores the role of parking taxation in reducing congestion by considering a natural...
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The Economic Effects of Density: A Synthesis
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Pietrostefani, Elisabetta - 2017
-income city, we find that a 1% increase in density implies positive per capita net present values of wage and rent effects of $280 …This paper synthesises the state of knowledge on the economic effects of density. We consider 15 outcome categories and … 209 estimates of density elasticities from 103 studies. More than 50% of these estimates have not been previously …
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Transportes e metrópoles: Aspectos da integração em regiões metropolitanas
Pedroso, Frederico Ferreira Fonseca; Neto, Vicente … - 2015
This article analyze the transport management and the urban mobility in Brazilian metropolitan areas. The transportation and mobility are considered as a public service of common interest on metropolitan arrangements. The paper conducts an analysis of some case studies in order to contribute to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372142
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A governança metropolitana da mobilidade: Uma análise a partir dos Estados
Lima Neto, Vicente Correia; Orrico Filho, Rômulo Dante - 2015
The public transportation is known as a public service of common interest and it is the constitutional basis for the formulation of metropolitan areas by the states governments. This article develops a critical analysis from fourteen Brazilian metropolitan regions reports of the Metropolitan...
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Second-best Urban Tolls in a Monocentric City with Housing Market Regulations
Tikoudis, Ioannis; Verhoef, Erik T.; van Ommeren, Jos N. - 2015
This paper investigates second-best congestion pricing in a monocentric city characterized by distortionary, rigid …
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Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies
Chen, Liming; Hasan, Rana; Jiang, Yi; Parkhomenko, Andrii - 2023
's largest cities. The city inaugurated a metro system in 2011. Yet it has low building heights even near metro stations … near metro stations (transitoriented development) or in the city center. Moreover, the metro and transit …
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Long-term transport energy demand and climate policy: Alternative visions on transport decarbonization in energy economy models
Pietzcker, Robert; Longden, Thomas; Chen, Wenying; Fu, Sha - 2013
Transportation accounts for a substantial share of CO2 emissions, and decarbonizing transport will be necessary to limit global warming to below 2êC. Due to persistent reliance on fossil fuels, it is posited that transport is more difficult to decarbonize than other sectors. We test this...
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Mobilität in ländlichen Räumen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung bedarfsgesteuerter Bedienformen des ÖPNV
Steinrück, Barbara; Küpper, Patrick - 2010
In der verkehrspolitischen Diskussion werden bedarfsgesteuerte Angebotsformen des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs (ÖPNV) vielfach als geeignete Ergänzung des sich in nachfrageschwachen Räumen ausdünnenden traditionellen ÖPNV betrachtet, um auf den Qualitätsnachteil gegenüber dem...
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