Mobility and Congestion in Urban India
This paper uses a popular web mapping and transportation service to generate information for more than 22 million counterfactual trip instances in 154 large Indian cities. It then develops a methodology to estimate robust indices of mobility for th...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/811261533850020988/Mobility-and-congestion-in-urban-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30236 |
| Summary: | This paper uses a popular web mapping
and transportation service to generate information for more
than 22 million counterfactual trip instances in 154 large
Indian cities. It then develops a methodology to estimate
robust indices of mobility for these cities. The estimation
allows for an exact decomposition of overall mobility into
uncongested mobility and the congestion delays caused by
traffic. The paper first documents wide variation in
mobility across Indian cities. It then shows that this
variation is driven primarily by uncongested mobility.
Finally, the paper investigates correlates of mobility and
congestion. Denser and more populated cities are slower, in
part because of congestion, especially close to their
centers. Urban economic development is generally correlated
with better uncongested mobility, worse congestion, and
overall with better mobility. |
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