Urban Transportation in Emerging Cities

Event: Congestion, Mobility, and Accessibility in Emerging Cities

Urban Transportation in Emerging Cities

22 February 2017

Author / Speaker:

Gilles Duranton, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Email the author | Other materials by the author

To address the issues of accessibility, mobility, and congestion in emerging cities, this presentation aims to (i) rekindle interest on urban transportation in emerging cities; (ii) propose an integrated framework to think about accessibility, mobility, and congestion consistently; (iii) and show that progress can be achieved by combining simple economics with novel sources of data.

Geographical Focus:

Global

Type of Content:

Learning Event

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