Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

Working papers in Transport Economics,
CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI)

No 2018:19: Interaction Delay and Marginal Cost in Swedish Bicycle Traffic

Fredrik Johansson () and Roger Pyddoke
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Fredrik Johansson: CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI)
Roger Pyddoke: CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI)

Abstract: We apply the method presented by Johansson (2018) to estimate a volume delay function and marginal cost for bicycle traffic on cycling paths separated from motorized traffic based on point measurements of speed and lateral positions from seven sites in Sweden. The results indicate that a quadratic volume – delay function fits the data well in the observed range of volumes, and that there are significant delays already at volumes far below the capacity due to the heterogeneity of the desired speed over the population. The total marginal cost of delay per unit flow is estimated to €9×10-5 h/km.

Keywords: Bicycle traffic; Delay; Marginal cost

JEL-codes: R40; R41

23 pages, October 15, 2018

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