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We examine the effects of differences in income tax rates on commuting times within multi-state MSAs. Our theoretical … holding fixed other characteristics. We identify large effects on commuting times for affluent households and homeowners in …
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The monocentric city model is generalized to a fully structural form with leisure in utility, congested commuting, and …
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This paper provides the first delineation of China’s commuting-based metropolitan areas (MAs) using a new source of … commuting flow data at fine geographic levels. We show that commutes in China are overwhelmingly short and largely confined by … administrative boundaries. Consequently, commuting-based MAs are relatively small, highly correlated with the administrative …
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Many governments have banned strikes in public transportation. Whether this can be justified depends on whether strikes endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the effects of public transit strikes on urban...
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large network i.e., about 230 km of metro system has been planned to ease the commuting across the entire Mumbai … Metropolitan Region (MMR) by 2025. The initial 65 km stretch of the proposed high-speed rail (HSR) from Mumbai to Ahmedabad falls …
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External productivity and utility effects of city airports, Regional Studies. This paper uses a micro-level data set for residential and commercial property transactions to investigate external utility and productivity effects for three (city) airports in Berlin, Germany, in a spatial hedonic...
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The objective of this research to develop quantitative measures that capture various aspects of underlying network structure, using aggregate level travel data from fifty metropolitan areas across the U.S. The influence of these measures on system performance is then tested using statistical...
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This paper uses a difference-in-differences strategy and an event-study analysis to evaluate the effect of Uber entries on vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in 346 US MSAs between 2011 and 2017. Empirical results demonstrate that Uber entries have no significant effect on the total VMT in a city....
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In this work, we present a gridded dataset about land cover, population density, real estate, and transportation in 192 worldwide urban areas representing together 800 million people. While population density and land cover are secondary data extracted from the GHS-POP and the ESA CCI databases...
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COVID-19 significantly has changed the lifestyle in the urban areas. Urban parks reemerged as a savior of leisure activities and social joints under strict social-distancing measures. Physical activities such as strolling and jogging have relatively increased to avoid contact with others in...
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