TY  - JOUR
A1  - Borck, Rainald
T1  - Public transport and urban pollution
JF  - Regional science and urban economics
N2  - This paper studies the effect of public transport policies on urban pollution. It uses a quantitative equilibrium model with residential choice and mode choice. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters are calibrated to replicate key variables for American metropolitan areas. In the counterfactual, I study how free public transport coupled with increasing transit speed affects the equilibrium. In the baseline simulation, total pollution falls by 0.4%, as decreasing emissions from transport are partly offset by rising residential emissions. A second counterfactual compares a city with and without public transit. This large investment decreases pollution by 1.7%. When jobs are decentralized, emissions fall by 0.5% in the first and by 3% in the second counterfactual.
KW  - Public transport
KW  - Pollution
KW  - Discrete choice
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2019.06.005
SN  - 0166-0462
SN  - 1879-2308
VL  - 77
SP  - 356
EP  - 366
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -