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Type	Scientific Publication In Electronic Form
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	Can passenger railways curb road traffic externalities? – Empirical evidence
Organization Unit	Microeconomics, Industrial Organization, and Environmental Economics (Armin Schmutzler)
Authors	Rafael Lalive Simon Lüchinger Armin Schmutzler
Refereed	Yes
Language	English
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	VoxEU, CEPR Policy Portal
Date	2013-03-15
Abstract Text	Against a backdrop of road accidents, pollution and congestion, many governments subsidise railways with the aim of reducing such externalities. But do improvements in public transport work? This column argues that recent empirical evidence confirms our expectations and, moreover, that public-transport improvements offer good value for money.
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Official URL	http://www.voxeu.org/article/can-passenger-railways-curb-road-traffic-externalities-empirical-evidence
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