Bogotá Transit Infrastructure Impact Data for Spatial Modeling

This dataset supports replication of a study evaluating the equilibrium effects of public transit infrastructure on city structure and welfare. The analysis uses data spanning the construction of Bogotá's TransMilenio, the world's largest Bus Rapid Transit system. The study finds a standard travel time savings model accounts for only 52% of total welfare gains.

Use Cases

• Estimate reduced-form elasticities for transit infrastructure using data from Bogotá's TransMilenio system.
• Implement a sufficient statistics approach to measure aggregate welfare gains from improved transit infrastructure.
• Assess distributional consequences and impacts on inequality using a quantitative urban model with multiple worker groups.
• Analyze the adjustment of economic activity to a major BRT system using a spatial model framework.
• Compare welfare gain estimates from a general equilibrium model against a standard travel time saved value approach.

Strengths

• Data underpins analysis of the world's largest Bus Rapid Transit system.
• Supports a model that explains the adjustment of economic activity to new infrastructure.
• Enables comparison showing a standard approach captures only 52% of total welfare gain.

Limitations

• Specific column structure, sample size, and data granularity are unknown.
• Data scope is limited to the context of Bogotá's TransMilenio system.
• Potential for unobserved variables affecting the estimated elasticities and model outcomes.

Provenance

Source

Tsivanidis, Nick via ICPSR Harvested Dataverse.

Collection Method

Data collected for research on transit infrastructure impact.

Time Range

Spans the construction period of Bogotá's TransMilenio system.

Freshness

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Geography

Bogotá, Colombia.