Transportation Economics in the 21st Century

该奖项将资助一系列会议，NBER的研究人员将在这些会议上展示关于运输经济学各个方面的白色论文的结果。主题包括采购，基础设施和供应链;旨在运输部门去碳化的政策的影响;量化美国运输部门的广泛经济影响，包括对就业，生产力和家庭时间使用的影响;如何最好地衡量复杂的运输项目的成本和效益，以及运输政策和项目在收入中的分配后果，种族和民族。该奖项由NSF和交通部合作资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will fund a series of meetings where NBER researchers will present the results of white papers on various aspects of transportation economics. Topics include procurement, infrastructure, and supply chains; the effects of policies aimed at de-carbonization of the transportation sector; quantifying the widespread economic impact of the U.S. transportation sector including effects on employment, productivity, and household time use; how to best measure the costs and benefits of complicated transportation projects, and the distributional consequences of transportation policies and projects across income, racial, and ethnic groups. This award is funded through a partnership between NSF and the Department of Transportation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.