gasoline price
Traffic hit hard by fuel prices - average down over 5%, but some way worse
Posted on Sun, 2008-08-24 16:24
Traffic on tax roads in the US seems to have dropped on average by 4 to 5% and on toll roads by 5 to 6% over the past year. The reduced travel is attributable almost entirely to the big run-up in gasoline prices and is about was to be expected from long-established economists' estimates of the price elasticity of demand of about -0.2.
