Cities in the developing world

G Bryan, E Glaeser, N Tsivanidis - Annual Review of Economics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic
opportunity and challenges, like contagious disease and congestion, because proximity …

Peak‐Hour Road Congestion Pricing: Experimental Evidence and Equilibrium Implications

G Kreindler - Econometrica, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Developing country megacities suffer from severe road traffic congestion, yet the level of
congestion is not a direct measure of equilibrium inefficiency. I study the peak‐hour traffic …

Mobility and congestion in urban India

P Akbar, V Couture, G Duranton… - American Economic …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We develop a methodology to estimate robust city-level vehicular speed indices, exactly
decomposable into uncongested speed and congestion. We apply it to 180 Indian cities …

The impact of ride-hailing services on congestion: Evidence from indian cities

S Agarwal, D Mani, R Telang - Manufacturing & Service …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: Early research has documented significant growth in ride-hailing
services worldwide and allied benefits. However, growing evidence of their negative …

Evaluation of odd–even day traffic restriction experiments in Delhi, India

D Mohan, G Tiwari, R Goel… - Transportation Research …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
During periods from January 1 to January 15 and April 15 to April 30, 2016, the Government
of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India, implemented an odd–even vehicle rule …

[HTML][HTML] Citywide parking policy and traffic: Evidence from Amsterdam

F Ostermeijer, H Koster, L Nunes… - Journal of Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine the effect of citywide parking policy on parking and traffic demand. Using a
large increase in on-street parking prices for the city of Amsterdam, we show that the policy …

Heterogeneous impacts of local traffic congestion on local air pollution within a city: Utilizing taxi trajectory data

F Xia, X Cheng, Z Lei, J Xu, Y Liu, Y Zhang… - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study estimates the causal effects of traffic congestion on air quality in local areas within
a city, highlighting the spatial and temporal variation in local traffic, local air pollution, and …

Impact of the MRT Jakarta on congestion: evidence from a before-after, treatment-control evaluation

A Widita, T Welch, D Rukmana… - Journal of Planning …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Across urban and metropolitan regions worldwide, developing a new transit system is often
considered an effective way to address traffic congestion. The Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit …

Comparative emission study by real-time congestion monitoring for stable pollution policy on temporal and meso-spatial regions in Delhi

S Mishra, A Kushwaha, D Aggrawal, A Gupta - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and motorization lead to hiking of air pollution in
various mega cities including Delhi, India. Studies done to analyze pollution suggests that …

[HTML][HTML] A gridded dataset on densities, real estate prices, transport, and land use inside 192 worldwide urban areas

Q Lepetit, V Viguié, C Liotta - Data in brief, 2023 - Elsevier
This work presents a gridded dataset on real estate and transportation in 192 worldwide
urban areas, obtained from the Google Maps API and the web scraping of real estate …