Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L.; Kreindler, Gabriel E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure … road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration data from Uber rides across millions of American roads. Our … measure correlates strongly and positively with other measures of road roughness where they are available, negatively with …