Extreme events as a result of climate change and rapid urbanization pose major challenges for the transportation infrastructure that connect people and activity across space. In this project, I will study how road transportation networks and travel behavior cope with such disruptions to mobility, and what makes cities either more or less resilient to them in the long term. In particular, the project will use publicly available real-time data on travel times, weather and road incidents for countries around the world to study how unexpected disruptions slow down travel, how road users choose to adapt (e.g. by switching to alternative routes, departure times or travel modes), and how their choices affect the rest of the travel network (e.g. via congestion spillovers). I will then quantify the welfare gains from having a more resilient travel network, while identifying features of routes and the broader travel network that help mitigate the effects of observed disruptions.

2025

2029