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Publicly announced speed limit enforcement and its impact on road safety : evidence from the German Blitzmarathons
Molitor, Ramona - 2017
change in road safety, we do not find that the reduction in traffic accidents persists beyond a Blitzmarathon-day. In terms …This paper studies a unique traffic law enforcement campaign in Germany and its impact on road safety. Key features of …-indifferences estimations, we find an eight percent reduction in the number of traffic accidents and a nine percent reduction in the number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619750
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Speed limit enforcement and road safety
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona - 2019 - This version: December 2019
police reported accidents in a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we find that SLMO reduce traffic accidents and …We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156382
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Speed limit enforcement and road safety
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona - 2019
police reported accidents in a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we find that SLMO reduce traffic accidents and …We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151780
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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents
Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019
crimes and in this paper we focus on a very serious and widespread one, hit-and-run road accidents. In fact, it is not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120376
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Stay or flee? : probability versus severity of punishment in hit-and-run accidents
Castriota, Stefano; Tonin, Mirco - 2019
crimes and in this paper we focus on a very serious and widespread one, hit-and-run road accidents. In fact, it is not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126178
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Does public transit reduce car travel externalities? : quasi-natural experiments' evidence from transit strikes
Adler, Martin W; Ommeren, Jos van - 2015
The provision of public transit is thought to reduce travel time losses that are due to car congestion. For this reason, it is economically justified to subsidise public transit from a welfare perspective as it creates a congestion-relief benefit. The main goal of this paper is to quantify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484448
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Traffic safety in Korea : understanding the vulnerability of elderly pedestrians
Adler, Martin W; Ahrend, Rudiger - 2017
financially stronger municipalities having better traffic safety, which could reflect a larger capacity to maintain roads and …Pedestrians are vulnerable in traffic, with frequently reported injuries and fatalities. These risks are believed to be … implement road safety measures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694375
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Valuation of public investment to support bicycling
Hintermann, Beat; Götschi, Thomas - 2013
In this paper we develop a framework to value public investments with the purpose of increasing bicycling that explicitly accounts internal costs of bicycling, which are typically neglected in current established approaches that value bicycle spending by means of gross health benefits alone, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717879
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On revenue recycling and the welfare effects of second-best congestion pricing in a monocentric city
Tikoudis, Ioannis; Verhoef, Erik T.; Ommeren, Jos van - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191425
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Does public transit reduce car travel externalities?
Adler, Martin W.; Ommeren, Jos van - 2015
One of the main unanswered questions in the field of urban economics is to which extent subsidies to public transit are justified. We examine one of the main benefits of public transit, a reduction in car congestion externalities, the so-called congestion relief benefit, using quasi-natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477114