Speed and income

Mogens Fosgerau ()

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Abstract: The relationship between speed and income is established in a micro- economic model focusing on the trade-off between travel time and the risk of receiving a penalty for exceeding the speed limit. This is used to determine when a rational driver will choose to exceed the speed limit. The relationship between speed and income is found again in the empirical analysis of a cross-sectional dataset comprising 60.000 observations of car trips. This is utilised to perform regressions of speed on income, distance travelled and a number of controls. The results are clearly significant and indicate an average income elasticity of speed of 0.03; it is smaller at short distances and about twice as large at the longest distance investigated of 200 km.

Keywords: Speed; income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004-05-07
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 21. 21 pages pdf
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Working Paper: Speed and income (2005)
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