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The Effect of Railway Travel on Urban Spatial Structure

We examine the effect of railway travel on urban spatial structure in a polycentric urban land use model. We focus on the role of access to the railway network. We find that if the number of train stations is limited, the degree of urbanization is higher around train stations, but the effect of railway travel on road congestion is small. By contrast, if train stations are omnipresent there is little effect on urban spatial structure, but a considerable decrease in congestion. With regard to the supply of train stations, these findings suggest that there is an important policy trade-off between congestion and urbanization.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 14-050/VIII

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Computable General Equilibrium Models
Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies
Land Use Patterns
Thema
general equilibrium
public transport
land use model
railway
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Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dröes, Martijn I.
Rietveld†, Piet
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2014

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dröes, Martijn I.
  • Rietveld†, Piet
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2014

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