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The congestion relief benefit of public transit: evidence from Rome

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posted on 2020-11-13, 09:47 authored by Martin Adler, Federica Liberini, Antonio Russo, Jos van Ommeren
We estimate the effect of public transport supply on travel times of motor-vehicle and bus users in Rome, Italy. We apply a quasi-experimental methodology exploiting hourly information on public transport service reductions during strikes. We find that a ten-percentage point reduction in public transit supply increases the travel time of motor-vehicles by about 1.6 percent in the morning peak. The effect on bus travel time is similar. The congestion-relief benefit of public transport is thus sizeable and bus travel time gains account for an important share of it.

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European Research Council-OPTION program

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  • Business and Economics

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  • Economics

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Journal of Economic Geography

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Economic Geography following peer review. The version of record Martin W Adler, Federica Liberini, Antonio Russo, Jos N van Ommeren, 2020. The congestion relief benefit of public transit: evidence from Rome. Journal of Economic Geography, doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbaa037 is available online at:https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbaa037

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2020-11-12

Publication date

2020-12-31

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

1468-2702

eISSN

1468-2710

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Antonio Russo. Deposit date: 12 November 2020

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