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Effects of Job Accessibility Improved by Public Transport System: Natural Experimental Evidence from the Copenhagen Metro

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: This study examines the effect of accessibility to urban jobs via a public transport system on individual earnings and commuting behaviour. The effect of improved public transport based accessibility on these outcomes is determined by exploiting the exogenous variation in access to a public rail and Metro system resulting from the construction of a new terminal Metro station connecting southern townships to Copenhagen city centre. The results show that public transport based job accessibility has a positive and permanent effect on individual earnings. The increase in earnings is associated with a change in commuting patterns as the improved access to public transport facilitates a shift from employment within the township to better paid jobs in the city centre, as well as in other suburbs of the Copenhagen Metropolitan area.

Source: European journal of transport and infrastructure research

DOI: 10.18757/ejtir.2015.15.4.3090

Authors: Gabriel Pons Rotger, Thomas Sick Nielsen

Institutions: Danish National Centre for Social Research, Technical University of Denmark

Language: English

Topic: Urban Transport and Accessibility

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure, No poverty

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Strategiske Forskningsråd