Effects of congestion surcharges: From ridership to competition and safety

Bryan Weber, Ali Moghtaderi and Paolo Cappellari

Economics of Transportation, 2025, vol. 43, issue C

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of a 2019 congestion surcharge on for-hire-vehicle and taxi usage in New York City. We use a difference-in-differences method to evaluate both the change in rides during this period and the coinciding decline in pickups. We find a significant decline in rides originating from the charged area (11%), and a parallel reduction in collisions (5%), injuries (9%), and some fatalities, suggesting that the policy has successfully created the intended reduction in vehicular activity. Taxis appear to lose a larger number of rides than their competition, both in single-passenger and shared rides.

Keywords: Transportation; Rideshare; Safety; Surcharge; Congestion; Tax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012225000346
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecotra:v:43:y:2025:i:c:s2212012225000346

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecotra.2025.100426

Access Statistics for this article

Economics of Transportation is currently edited by Mogens Fosgerau and Erik Verhoef

More articles in Economics of Transportation from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().