1. Disentangling the Benefits of Transport Investments and Complementary Policies

2. Predicting Benefits of a New Investment
Finding: Improvement in city metro service reduced congestion by 10% and increased labor force participation by 5%.
Key Question: What would happen if we similarly
improved the city metro in other cities?

3. Effects of the Transport Intervention
Transport Investment
Investment in Transport Infrastructure or Services
Initial Conditions
Geography, Population, Market Imperfections
Soft Intervention
Policies and Institutional Structure
Economic
&
Social
Benefits

4. Design a Joint Impact Evaluation Across Cities
City 1
City 2
Design a joint impact evaluation across cities
Typically these cities would have different:
Mobility patterns
Labor markets conditions
Geography
Land use
Financial institutions
Across the cities you could vary different policy levers:
Intuitional strengthening
Congestion taxing
Safety and security measures
Carbon pricing
Rebalancing urban space towards active modes
City 3
City 4

5. Heatmap of Impact
A joint impact evaluation across cities will allow you to understand:
How effect (of an improvement in metros) on congestion and jobs varies with initial mobility patterns, initial land use, and so on
How the effect varies as you use different policy instruments (soft tools). For example, congestion pricing, safety measure, carbon pricing, and so on
Impact
Initial Conditions
Policy Interventions