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Gabriel Kreindler

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
gek@mit.edu

Gabriel Kreindler is a doctoral candidate in the economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His interests include urban transportation, technology and development, and diffusion of information and behaviour. His current research projects include an experimental simulation of road congestion pricing in Delhi, and an analysis of urban commuting patterns using mobile phone transaction data from Sri Lanka. He has worked for various projects with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) since 2011, in Morocco, Indonesia and India. He is a Research Fellow at the Sri Lanka based think tank LIRNEasia. He holds a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from Princeton University and an M.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford.

Posts by Gabriel Kreindler

Congestion pricing to solve traffic jams? Not so fast!

The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi recently said that the city is likely to become the first in India to have congestion charges in certain stretches. This column reports results from an experimental p...

  • Articles

Smart congestion pricing: Testing travel incentives to reduce congestion in Bangalore

Severe peak-time traffic congestion is endemic in large cities in developing countries, both on roads as well as in public transportation, with important negative consequences. There is a pressing nee...

  • IGC Research on India

The Impact of short-term driving restrictions on mobility and traffic congestion in Delhi

Large cities in developing countries throughout the world grapple with traffic congestion. Driving restrictions are one of the most common regulations to directly lower congestion.

  • IGC Research on India

Driving restrictions in Delhi: Real benefits and warning signs

The driving restrictions policy that Delhi experimented with in January was implemented for a second time in April for a fortnight. This column finds that the policy lowered traffic congestion; the i...

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Driving Delhi: The impact of driving restrictions on driver behaviour

In an attempt to address Delhi’s grave pollution problem, the state government experimented with a driving restrictions policy for a fortnight in January. Based on a phone survey of a sample of 614...

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