Arbeitspapier
Does supporting passenger railways reduce road traffic externalities?
Many governments subsidize regional rail service as an alternative to road traffic. This paper assesses whether increases in service frequency reduce road traffic externalities. We exploit differences in service frequency growth by procurement mode following a railway reform in Germany to address endogeneity of service growth. Increases in service frequency reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant mortality. Placebo regressions with sulfur dioxide and ozone yield no effect. Service frequency growth between 1994 and 2004 improves environmental quality by an amount that is worth approximately 28-40 % of total subsidies. An analysis of household behavior shows that the effects of railway services on outcome variables are driven by substitution from road to rail.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 110
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
Transportation Economics: Government Pricing and Policy
- Thema
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railways
pollution
procurement
accidents
Schienenpersonennahverkehr
Verkehrssubvention
Wirkungsanalyse
Nachhaltige Mobilität
Straßenpersonenverkehr
Externer Effekt
Schätzung
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lalive, Rafael
Luechinger, Simon
Schmutzler, Armin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Zurich, Department of Economics
- (wo)
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Zurich
- (wann)
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2013
- DOI
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doi:10.5167/uzh-73524
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Lalive, Rafael
- Luechinger, Simon
- Schmutzler, Armin
- University of Zurich, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2013
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