Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century
Organized by Edward L. Glaeser, James M. Poterba, and Stephen J. Redding
October 16, 2026
Zoom
Friday, October 16
1:00 pm
Welcome
James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Session 1
Chair: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
1:05pm

Urban Congestion Relief Experiments through Routing-App Interventions

Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
Neha Arora, Google Research
Aboudy Kreidieh, Google Research
Andrew Tomkins, Google Research
1:30pm

Platform Pricing and the Geography of Congestion Tax Incidence: Evidence from Ride-Hailing in Chicago

Keitaro Ninomiya
1:55pm

Accounting for the Survivors: Traffic Injuries, Match Destruction, and the Cost of Nonfatal Accidents

Kuan-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University
Chen-An Lien, The University of Chicago
2:20 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Plenary Lecture: Traffic Safety and Autonymous Vehicles
Jonathan Hall, University of Alabama
Session 2
Chair: Stephen Redding, Stanford University and NBER
3:15pm

Autonomous Vehicles and the Gig Economy: Competition and Coexistence

Nicholas Buchholz, Princeton University
Jakub Kastl, Princeton University and NBER
3:40pm

Transportation Bottlenecks and Aggregate Shocks

Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER
Theodore Papageorgiou, Boston College
Yixin Zhou, Harvard University
4:05pm

Work from Home and Air Pollution

Benjamin Krebs, University of Basel
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Matthew J. Neidell, Columbia University and NBER
4:30 pm

Infrastructure Costs Across the States

Ella Goeckner-Wald, University of California, Berkeley
Anderson Kovesci, University of California, Berkeley
Cailin R. Slattery, University of California, Berkeley
4:55 pm
Closing Remarks
5:00 pm
Adjourn