Study of buses and fare-free scenarios in Bangalore, India

Transportation is seen as an economic enabler in a city, but there is another critical role played by transportation in social mobility that is mostly ignored. Transportation connects communities to employment, education, and vital services which promote social mobility1.

 http://fieldsofview.in/publications/BMTC_FareChangeScenarios_Report2020.pdf

Traffic congestion leads to domestic violence

We find that extreme traffic increases the incidence of domestic violence, a crime shown to be affected by emotional cues, but not other crimes. The result is robust to a variety of specifications and falsification tests. The results represent a lower bound of the psychological costs of traffic congestion, since most drivers stuck in traffic do not commit domestic violence but still bear some emotional costs.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272718300422