Data and Code for: Mobility and congestion in urban India

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Prottoy Akbar, Aalto University; Victor Couture, University of British Columbia; Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania; Adam Storeygard, Tufts University

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Project Citation: 

Akbar, Prottoy, Couture, Victor, Duranton, Gilles, and Storeygard, Adam. Data and Code for: Mobility and congestion in urban India. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-03-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/E182681V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Replicates empirical results from "Mobility and Congestion in Urban India". Article abstract: We develop a methodology to estimate robust city-level vehicular speed indices, exactly decomposable into uncongested speed and congestion. We apply it to 180 Indian cities using 57 million simulated trips measured by a web mapping service. We verify the reliability of our simulated trips using a number of alternative data sources, including data on actual trips. We find wide variation in speed across cities that is driven more by differences in uncongested speed than congestion. Denser and more populated cities are slower, only in part because of congestion. Urban economic development is correlated with faster speed despite worse congestion.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources World Bank; Global Research Program on Spatial Development of Cities at LSE and Oxford funded by the Multi Donor Trust Fund on Sustainable Urbanization of the World Bank and supported by the UK Department for International Development; Zell Lurie Center for Real Estate at the Wharton School; Fisher Center for Urban and Real Estate Economics at Berkeley-Haas

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms urban transportation; roads; traffic congestion; travel speed determinants; cities
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
      R41 Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage India, United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2019 – 2019
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2019 – 2019
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) program source code


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