@article{ref1,
title="Road congestion and incident duration",
journal="Economics of transportation",
year="2013",
author="Adler, Martin W. and Ommeren, Jos van and Rietveld, Piet",
volume="2",
number="4",
pages="109-118",
abstract="Non-recurrent congestion is frequently caused by accidents and other incidents. We estimate the causal effect of incident duration on drivers' time losses through changes in non-recurrent road congestion on Dutch highways. We demonstrate that incident duration has a strong positive, but concave, effect on non-recurrent congestion. The duration elasticity of non-recurrent congestion is about 0.35 implying that a one minute duration reduction generates a €57 gain per incident. We also show that at locations with high levels of recurrent congestion, non-recurrent congestion levels are considerably higher. At very congested locations, the benefit of reducing the incident duration by one minute is about €1200 per incident. Public policies that prioritize duration reductions at congested locations are therefore more beneficial.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2212-0122",
doi="10.1016/j.ecotra.2013.12.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.2013.12.003"
}