01084nam a22001457a 4500 522871 522871 230609b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Akbar, Prottoy et al 41686 Mobility and congestion in Urban India The American Economic Review 113(4), Apr, 2023: p.1083-1111 We develop a methodology to estimate robust city-level vehicular speed indices, exactly decomposable into uncongested speed and congestion. We apply it to 180 Indian cities using 57 million simulated trips measured by a web mapping service. We verify the reliability of our simulated trips using a number of alternative data sources, including data on actual trips. We find wide variation in speed across cities that is driven more by differences in uncongested speed than congestion. Denser and more populated cities are slower, only in part because of congestion. Urban economic development is correlated with faster speed despite worse congestion.- Reproduced The American Economic Review URBAN DEVELOPMENT AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 397908 IIPA IIPA 2023-06-09 113(4), Apr, 2023: p.1083-1111 AR128921 2023-06-09 AR