TY - JOUR
T1 - The underground economy
T2 - Tracking the higher-order economic impacts of the São Paulo Subway System
AU - Haddad, Eduardo A.
AU - Hewings, Geoffrey J.D.
AU - Porsse, Alexandre A.
AU - Van Leeuwen, Eveline S.
AU - Vieira, Renato S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Eduardo Haddad is a CNPq scholar; he acknowledges financial support from FAPESP (Grant # 2013/00894-1 ); he also thanks Princeton University and Rutgers University for their hospitality.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/3/1
Y1 - 2015/3/1
N2 - Over one million workers commute daily to São Paulo City center, using different modes of transportation. The São Paulo subway network reaches 74.2. km of length and is involved in around 20% of the commuting trips by public transportation, enhancing mobility and productivity of workers. This paper uses an integrated framework to assess the higher-order economic impacts of the existing underground metro infrastructure. We consider links between mobility, accessibility and labor productivity in the context of a detailed metropolitan system embedded in the national economy. Simulation results from a spatial computable general equilibrium model integrated to a transportation model suggest positive economic impacts that go beyond the city limits. While 32% of the impacts accrue to the city of São Paulo, the remaining 68% benefit other municipalities in the metropolitan area (11%), in the State of São Paulo (12.0%) and in the rest of the country (45%).
AB - Over one million workers commute daily to São Paulo City center, using different modes of transportation. The São Paulo subway network reaches 74.2. km of length and is involved in around 20% of the commuting trips by public transportation, enhancing mobility and productivity of workers. This paper uses an integrated framework to assess the higher-order economic impacts of the existing underground metro infrastructure. We consider links between mobility, accessibility and labor productivity in the context of a detailed metropolitan system embedded in the national economy. Simulation results from a spatial computable general equilibrium model integrated to a transportation model suggest positive economic impacts that go beyond the city limits. While 32% of the impacts accrue to the city of São Paulo, the remaining 68% benefit other municipalities in the metropolitan area (11%), in the State of São Paulo (12.0%) and in the rest of the country (45%).
KW - Accessibility
KW - Economy-wide effects
KW - Mobility
KW - Productivity
KW - Subway system
KW - Transportation infrastructure
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tra.2014.12.011
DO - 10.1016/j.tra.2014.12.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84921862663
SN - 0965-8564
VL - 73
SP - 18
EP - 30
JO - Transportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice
JF - Transportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice
ER -