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García López, Miquel-Àngel
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Pasidis, Ilias
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Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet
2020-12-09T11:55:49Z2020-12-09T11:55:49Z2020
Using data from the 545 largest European cities, we studywhether the expansion of their highway capacity provides a solutionto the problem of traffic congestion. Our results confirm that in thelong run, and in line with the ’fundamental law of highway congestion’,the expansion in cities of lane kilometers causes an increase invehicle traffic that does not solve urban congestion. We disentanglethe increase in traffic due to the increases in coverage and in capacity.We further introduce road pricing andpublic transit policies in orderto test whether they moderate congestion. Our findings confirm thatthe induced demand is considerably smaller in cities with road pricingschemes, and that congestion decreases with the expansion of publictransportation.
cc-by-nc-nd, (c) García López et al., 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Enginyeria del trànsit
Congestió del trànsit
Planificació del transport
Traffic engineering
Traffic congestion
Transportation planning
Congestion in Highways when tolls and railroads matter: Evidence from European cities [WP]
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper