Public transport and urban pollution
- 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.
| Author details: | Rainald BorckORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2019.06.005 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0462 |
| ISSN: | 1879-2308 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Regional science and urban economics |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2019/06/23 |
| Publication year: | 2019 |
| Release date: | 2021/01/14 |
| Tag: | Discrete choice; Pollution; Public transport |
| Volume: | 77 |
| Number of pages: | 11 |
| First page: | 356 |
| Last Page: | 366 |
| Funding institution: | German Research Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Green Open-Access |
