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Economic Evaluation of Road Traffic Safety Measures
Gul, Ejaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The number of road traffic casualties is still very lofty and the trend shows a boost with each passing day. The road … traffic accidents involve fatalities due to which economic resources are damaged and the productivity of the economy is … correspondingly impaired. Costs resulting from traffic accidents represent the largest single part of the overall cost of traffic to …
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Comparing willingness-to-pay and subjective well-being in the context of non-market goods
Dolan, Paul; Metcalf, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
based on individuals’ ratings of their happiness or life satisfaction rather than on their preferences. In the context of a … revealed and stated preference data. Stigma in revealed preferences, mental accounting in stated preferences and unspecified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884533
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Comparing Willingness-to-Pay and Subjective Well-Being in the Context of Non-Market Goods
Dolan, Paul; Metcalfe, Robert - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
based on individuals' ratings of their happiness or life satisfaction rather than on their preferences. In the context of a … revealed and stated preference data. Stigma in revealed preferences, mental accounting in stated preferences and unspecified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796133
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Habits and Preferences for Sports and Recreation in Medellín: An Application of Logit Models
Tobón, David; Valencia, Germán; Bedoya, John - In: Lecturas de Economía (2011) 74, pp. 9-35
This paper makes a theoretical review of the factors influencing sports and recreational practices. It also provides information allowing one to understand why Medellin’s citizens do or do not participate into such practices, which physical activities they prefer and how often and with what...
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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015
effects of public transit strikes on urban populations in Germany. Due to higher traffic volumes and longer travel times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531797
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When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill : the impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015
effects of public transit strikes on urban populations in Germany. Due to higher traffic volumes and longer travel times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509598
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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015
effects of public transit strikes on urban populations in Germany. Due to higher traffic volumes and longer travel times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265260
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Urban congestion - why 'free' roads are costly
Hubbard, Paul - In: Economic Roundup (2009) 2, pp. 1-19
The inhabitants of Australia's larger cities suffer from frequent traffic jams. Many see this as an inescapable fact of …
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The Value of Urgency
Bento, Antonio - 2021
Neoclassical microeconomic theory postulates that the value of time is a fraction of an individual’s hourly wage. When taken to the marketplace, however, this value appears to depart from theoretical predictions. To reconcile them, we conceptualize the value of urgency, which reflects...
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Machine Learning from Big GPS Data about the Heterogeneous Costs of Congestion
Koch, Nicolas; Ritter, Nolan; Rohlf, Alexander; Thies, Ben - 2023
year in Berlin to suggest a novel approach to estimate the external costs of traffic congestion from revealed choices in a … and side streets. Causal identification for the route-level congestion elasticity relies on exogenous increases in traffic … density from rerouting induced by traffic incidences that occur on adjacent roads off a given trip’s route. Our findings …
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