Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century
Organized by Edward L. Glaeser, James M. Poterba, and Stephen J. Redding
Supported by the US Department of Transportation through an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation
May 15, 2026
Zoom
Format: This is a virtual meeting. Paper authors will have 25 minutes for their presentation, and panelists will have 15 minutes for opening remarks. Times are Eastern Time.

Friday, May 15

1:00 pm

Welcome
Seval Oz, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of Research and Technology,
US Department of Transportation

1:10 pm

Session 1: Panel Discussion: The Economic and Regulatory Landscape for Autonomous Transportation Services in the US

Chair, James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Keith Chen, University of California, Los Angeles
Alain Kornhauser, Princeton University
Anne Rundle, ACT Research

2:10 pm

Break

2:20 pm

Session 2: Autonomous Vehicles: Implications for Safety and Labor Markets

Chair: Stephen Redding, Stanford University and NBER

Assessing US Automobile Safety from an International Perspective: American Exceptionalism Revisited

Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston
Clifford Winston, The Brookings Institution

End of the Road? Autonomous Vehicles and Displacement Risk

Danial Salman, University of Washington

3:10 pm

Break

3:20pm

Session 3: Pricing and Valuing Transportation Infrastructure

Chair: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER

Strategic Transportation Investment and Coordinative Policies: Evidence from the US Highway Network

Yuyang Jiang, Princeton University

Road Pricing Under Heterogeneity

Itay Ater, Tel Aviv University
Brad Ross, University of Pennsylvania
Adi Shany, Tel Aviv University
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER

Travel Mode Choice and Distributional Impacts of Congestion Charge Policy in New York City

Yikuan Ji, University of Maryland, College Park

4:35 pm

Closing Remarks

4:45pm

Adjourn