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Do Ride-Sharing Services Cause Traffic Congestion?
Pang, Jindong; Shen, Shulin - 2022
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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Measuring the Impact of Ride-Hailing Firms on Urban Congestion : The Case of Uber in Europe and United States
Fageda, Xavier - 2019
large urban areas in Europe and the United States for the period 2008 through 2016, it finds a negative impact of Uber on … congestion in Europe and a positive impact in the United States. Results suggest that ride-hailing firms have brought about an … increase in vehicle utilization of for-hire cars with drivers in Europe, while they have promoted an increase in the size of …
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The effect of government highway spending on road users' congestion costs
Winston, Clifford; Langer, Ashley - In: Journal of urban economics 60 (2006) 3, pp. 463-483
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The fuel tax and alternatives for transportation funding
2006
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Case studies of financially distressed highway public-private partnerships in the United States
Garvin, Michael J. - In: Handbook on Public Private Partnerships in …, (pp. 245-268). 2022
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The fundamental law of road congestion : evidence from US cities
Duranton, Gilles; Turner, Matthew A. - 2009
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Economics of urban highway congestion and pricing
McDonald, John F.; D'Ouville, Edmond L.; Liu, Louie Nan - 1999
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The High-Speed Rail Money Sink : Why the United States Should Not Spend Trillions on Obsolete Technology
Institute, Cato; O'Toole, Randal - 2021
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s proposal to make the United States a “world leader” in high‐​speed rail would add more than $4 trillion to the federal debt for construction of new rail lines plus tens of billions of dollars of annual deficit spending to subsidize operating...
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Tradable permits to manage urban mobility : market design and experimental implementation
Brands, Devi; Verhoef, Erik T.; Knockaert, Jasper; … - 2019
Congestion levels have grown substantially in recent years, while the traditional economic response to congestion – road pricing – remains politically infeasible in most locations. Tradable permits are likely to be a more viable alternative, because they do not require a net financial flow...
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Salient or Not? The U.S. Air Travel Taxes
Chuang, Shih-Hsien - 2019
We exploit the abundance of tax changes in the airline industry after the DOT's full-disclosure rule. We determine the "effective" tax rate and analyze how passengers reacted to the tax changes. Hausman-type instruments are used to address the problems arising from endogenously determined...
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