New Directions in Transportation Economics.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on New Directions in Transportation Economics took place online on June 17. Research Associates Edward L. Glaeser of Harvard University, James M. Poterba of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting, which was supported by the US Department of Transportation through an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation (Grant 155903). These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER; James B. Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER; David S. Rapson, University of California, Davis; and Catherine Wolfram, University of California, Berkeley and NBER (on leave) and US Department of the Treasury, "Low Energy: Estimating Electric Vehicle Electricity Use" (NBER Working Paper 28451)

* Stephen P...