Subways, strikes, and slowdowns: The impacts of public transit on traffic congestion

ML Anderson - American Economic Review, 2014 - aeaweb.org
… type of VMT diverted to transit is critical in determining transit’s effects on congestion. Overall,
… hypothesis that transit generates large aggregate reductions in traffic congestion. Though …

Public transit investment and sustainable transportation: A review of studies of transit's impact on traffic congestion and air quality

J Beaudoin, YH Farzin, CYCL Lawell - Research in Transportation …, 2015 - Elsevier
public transit investment, taking account of the effects of transit investment on traffic congestion
… assess the sustainability of transit investment and the mechanisms through which public

Traffic congestion relief associated with public transport: state-of-the-art

DQ Nguyen-Phuoc, W Young, G Currie, C De Gruyter - Public Transport, 2020 - Springer
… suitable for congestion where PT and vehicles are occupying the road. This will … transit
workers for calibrating his model. He explored that the transit generated a much larger congestion

Visualization and assessment of the effect of roadworks on traffic congestion using AVL data of public transit

RH Mulangi, V Kulkarni - Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis, 2022 - Springer
… (AVL) data of public transit in evaluating the effect of route diversion due to roadworks on traffic
… the traffic congestion on Inner Ring Road was analyzed using the public transit AVL data. …

The effects of urban public transit investment on traffic congestion and air quality

J Beaudoin, CYCL Lawell - Urban transport systems, 2017 - books.google.com
… While public transit receives plenty of political support for its “… –effects of public transit
investment on traffic congestion or air … on the effects of public transit investment on congestion, the …

Reducing road congestion: a reality check

PR Stopher - Transport Policy, 2004 - Elsevier
public transport ridership and reduction of car use, resulting in a hoped-for reduction in road
congestion. … When the Bay Area Rapid Transit System's trans-Bay tunnel was opened, there …

Congestion, pollution, and benefit-to-cost ratios of US public transit systems

JD Harford - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2006 - Elsevier
… the public transit systems of 81 urbanized areas. The calculated sources of benefits are to
riders and the reduction of congestion … of taxes used to support public transit. For the medium …

Mitigation strategies for controlling urban particulate pollution from traffic congestion: Road expansion and road public transport

Y Wang, H Zhong - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
… air pollution problems associated with traffic congestion involves expanding the provision
of public transit services or subsidizing the cost of public transit use. Many researchers have …

Congestion, road safety, and the effectiveness of public policies in urban areas

D Albalate, X Fageda - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
… traffic congestion [54], but they identified considerable heterogeneities across urban areas,
with an increase in its effect in the most densely populated areas with extensive public transit

The fundamental law of road congestion: Evidence from US cities

G Duranton, MA Turner - American Economic Review, 2011 - aeaweb.org
… provision of roads or public transit is unlikely to relieve congestion. (JEL R41, R48) … of the
fundamental law of road congestion: we find no evidence that public transit affects VKT, and …