Non-recurrent congestion is frequently caused by accidents and other incidents. We estimate the causal effect of … incident duration on drivers’ time losses through changes in non-recurrent road congestion on Dutch highways. We demonstrate … that incident duration has a strong positive, but concave, effect on non-recurrent congestion. The duration elasticity of …

various complications that make simple textbook congestionpricingmodels of limited relevance, and dictate that congestion … pricingschemes bestudied from the perspective of the theory of the second best. Thesecomplications include pricing in networks …

The goal of this paper is the estimation of the effect of accidents on traffic congestion and vice versa. In order to … causal effect of accidents on traffic congestion and vice versa. The estimation draws on panel data methods that have … congestion and road accidents would yield multiplicative benefits for policies that aim at reducing either of them. In addition …