Road Congestion and Incident Duration
| Autor: | Adler, M. W., Jos Van Ommeren, Rietveld, P. |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Spatial Economics, Amsterdam Global Change Institute, CLUE+ |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Adler, M W, van Ommeren, J N & Rietveld, P 2013 ' Road Congestion and Incident Duration ' TI Discussion Paper, no. 13-089/VIII, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam . < http://papers.tinbergen.nl/13089.pdf > Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Popis: | 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 non-recurrent congestion is about 0.40 implying that a one minute duration reduction generates a €60 gain per incident. We also show that at locations with high levels of recurrent congestion, non-recurrent congestion levels are considerably higher. At very congested locations, the benefit of reducing the incident duration by one minute is about €500 per incident. Public policies that prioritize duration reductions at congested locations are therefore more beneficial. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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