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 …

This paper presents a model of urban traffic congestion that allows for hypercongestion. Hypercongestion has … fundamental importance for the costs of congestion and the effect of policies such as road pricing, transit provision and traffic …

amount of land from rural to urban uses. We also show that new highways have an impact on building activity. …

We estimate the effects of highways on the suburbanization of Spanish cities. Based on Spain’s historical roads – the … highways on shaping urban form: each additional kilometer closer to the nearest highway ramp increased municipal density growth …

If the government builds toll free national highways, the common man can be saved from being fleeced indirectly at toll …

We estimate the effects of highways on the suburbanization of Spanish cities. First, we extend previous findings for … suburbs located at 5–11 km from the central city (7.1%), and concentrated near the highways: population spreaded out along the …

Engineering studies demonstrate that traffic in dense downtown areas obeys a stable functional relationship between …

Urban congestion causes travel times to exhibit considerable variability, which leads to coordination problems when …