TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Road congestion and incident duration
JO  - Economics of transportation
A1  - Adler, Martin W.
A1  - Ommeren, Jos van
A1  - Rietveld, Piet
SP  - 109
EP  - 118
VL  - 2
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2212-0122
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.2013.12.003
ID  - ref1
ER  -