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Speed

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  • Victor Couture

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Gilles Duranton

    (University of Pennsylvania, and Centre for Economic Policy Research)

  • Matthew A. Turner

    (Brown University)

Abstract

We investigate determinants of driving speed in large U.S. cities. We first estimate city-level supply functions for travel in an econometric framework where the supply and demand for travel are explicit. These estimations allow us to calculate an index of driving speed and to rank cities by driving speed. Our data suggest that a congestion tax of about 3.5 cents per kilometer yields welfare gains of about $30 billion per year, that centralized cities are slower, that cities with ring roads are faster, and that the provision of automobile travel in cities is subject to decreasing returns to scale.

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  • Victor Couture & Gilles Duranton & Matthew A. Turner, 2018. "Speed," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 100(4), pages 725-739, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:100:y:2018:i:4:p:725-739
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    • Victor Couture & Gilles Duranton & Matthew Turner, 2016. "Speed," Working Papers hal-03459352, HAL.

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