Hugo Silva is an assistant professor at the Department of Transport and Logistics Engineering and the Institute of Economics of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and visiting researcher at the Institute of Complex Engineering Systems.
He is a civil engineer and hold a master’s degree in Transport from Universidad de Chile, and a PhD in Economics from the VU University Amsterdam.
RESEARCH AREAS
He has researched problems in the fields of transport economics and urban economics with an emphasis on the study of transport policy. In addition, he has an interest in regulation and industrial organisation.
LAST 10 PUBLICATIONS
Ramírez, V., Galilea, P., Poblete, J. & Silva, H.E. (2022). “Team-based incentives in transportation firms: An experiment”. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.07.012
Basso, L. J., Navarro, M., & Silva, H. E. (2021). Public transport and urban structure. Economics of Transportation, 28, 100232. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.2021.100232
Owell, B. Muñoz, J. CTheilva H. (2021) The impact of fare-free public transport on travel behavior: evidence from a randomized controlled trial. Regional Science and Urban Economics,86.
Vickerman. E, Silva H (2021) The Mohring Effect, invited chapter for International Encyclopedia of Transportation, pp 263-266, ed. Roger Vickerman, Elsevier.
Basso J., Fires F., Silva H. The efficiency of bus rapid transit (BRT) (2019) Systems: A dynamic congestion approach. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 2019, 127, 47-71
De Palma A., Lindsey R., Silva H.(2019) Equilibrium in the bottleneck model with atomic and non-atomic users Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2019, 124, 82-107.
Silva H., Verhoef E. (2017) Dynamic equilibrium at a congestible facility under market power. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 105, 174-192.
De Palma A., Lindsey R., Silva H., Van den Berg V. (2017) On the Existence and Uniqueness of Equilibrium in the Bottleneck Model with Atomic Users. Transportation Science, 51(3), 863-881.
Silva H., Basso L.(2014) Efficiency and Substitutability of Transit Subsidies and Other Urban Transport Policies. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 6(4), 1–33.
Silva H., Van den Berg V., Verhoef E.(2014) Airlines’ route structure competition and network policy. Transportation Research Part B, 2014, 67,320–343.
