Tang, Cheng Keat; van Ommeren, Jos N. - 2021
This paper estimates the marginal accident externality of driving in Central London by exploiting variation in traffic … flow induced by the London Congestion Charge Zone using an instrumental variable approach. The charge attributed to a 9 ….4% reduction in traffic flow, which resulted in a less than proportional 6.0% and 7.6% decrease in accidents and slight injuries …