Economics of Infrastructure Investment: Public Transportation

Edward L. Glaeser and James M. Poterba, Organizers

April 28, 2023

NBER, 2nd floor conference room, 1050 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, and Zoom

Friday, April 28
8:45 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:10 am	Welcome Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:15 am	Austin J. Drukker, Federal Trade Commission Clifford Winston, Brookings Institution Is Public Bus Transit a Competitor or a Subordinate to Public Rail Transit?
10:00 am	Prottoy A. Akbar, Aalto University Who Benefits from Faster Public Transit?
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Accounting for Public Transit Construction Costs (slides) Alon Levy, New York University
11:45 am	Lucas J. Conwell, University College London Are There Too Many Minibuses in Cape Town? Privatized Provision of Public Transit (slides)
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Rebecca J. Brough, University of California, Davis Matthew Freedman, University of California, Irvine David C. Phillips, University of Notre Dame Eliminating Fares to Expand Opportunities: Experimental Evidence on the Impacts of Free Public Transportation on Economic Disparities
2:00 pm	Yantao Huang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Kara Kockelman, University of Texas at Austin Krishna Murthy Gurumurthy, Argonne National Laboratory Venu Garikapati, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Autonomous Vehicles: Substitute for or Complement to Public Transit Systems (slides)
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Robert Huang, University of Southern California Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics
3:45 pm	Closing Discussion
4:00 pm	Adjourn