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arxiv: 2606.17530 · v1 · pith:RCYO75QQnew · submitted 2026-06-16 · ⚛️ physics.soc-ph · cs.LG· econ.GN· q-fin.EC· stat.AP

Public transit gains and spatially uneven travel demand changes after NYC congestion pricing

Donghang Li , Dingyi Zhuang , Yunlin Li , Chenan Shen , Nina Cao , Yunhan Zheng , Shenhao Wang , Jinhua Zhao This is my paper

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The pith

New York City's congestion pricing raised bus and subway ridership above expected levels while modestly lowering overall travel demand, with changes varying across neighborhoods.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper examines how New York City's cordon-based congestion pricing, started in January 2025, altered mobility across transit modes and locations. It uses time series foundation models to build probabilistic forecasts of demand that would have occurred without the policy, then compares these to observed post-policy data on buses, subways, and total trips. The analysis shows transit ridership grew significantly beyond the no-policy expectation, overall demand dropped only modestly, and both effects differed by location and neighborhood demographics. This reveals spatial equity patterns in how residents adapted, since traditional control groups for such a city-wide change are unavailable. The framework offers a way to assess broad urban pricing policies with quantified uncertainty.

Core claim

Post-policy bus and subway ridership increased significantly relative to expected no-policy demand, while overall travel demand decreased modestly. Reductions in aggregate travel concentrated inside the Congestion Relief Zone, yet transit gains extended beyond Manhattan's core. Neighborhood-level socio-demographic breakdowns show uneven adaptation across areas.

What carries the argument

Time series foundation models that generate probabilistic counterfactual demand forecasts with calibrated uncertainty to stand in for the no-policy scenario.

If this is right

  • Transit ridership gains occur even outside the priced zone.
  • Overall travel demand reductions remain localized to the congestion relief area.
  • Socio-demographic differences across neighborhoods shape how much each area adapts.
  • The method supports evaluation of system-wide interventions without needing clean control groups.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same forecasting approach could be applied to congestion pricing or other pricing schemes in additional cities to check consistency of mode shifts.
  • Tracking the same metrics over multiple years would reveal whether initial transit gains persist or fade.
  • Linking the spatial patterns to emissions or accessibility data could quantify secondary environmental or equity outcomes not measured here.

Load-bearing premise

The time series foundation models accurately generate probabilistic counterfactual demand forecasts with calibrated uncertainty that represent the no-policy scenario.

What would settle it

If observed post-policy bus, subway, and total trip volumes fall inside the models' no-policy forecast uncertainty bands, the claimed ridership gains and demand reductions would not be supported.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.17530 by Chenan Shen, Dingyi Zhuang, Donghang Li, Jinhua Zhao, Nina Cao, Shenhao Wang, Yunhan Zheng, Yunlin Li.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Uncertainty-aware counterfactual forecasting framework. a, a pretrained time series foundation model (TimesFM 2.0) generates zero-shot probabilistic forecasts from historical panel data, producing point forecasts and native quantile outputs that are used to construct predic￾tion intervals. b, forecast uncertainty is calibrated using validation residuals through a hierarchical quantile calibration (HQC) fra… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Probabilistic counterfactual forecasts and cumulative changes after congestion pricing. a, Example validation-period forecast for a representative bus route. The black line shows observed daily ridership, the blue line shows the model forecast, and the shaded band denotes the 90% prediction interval. The vertical dashed line marks the start of the forecast window. This panel illustrates the model’s ability… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: CRZ-specific changes relative to expected demand across travel modes and trip directions. a, Relative changes within and outside the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ) across bus, subway, and overall travel demand. Bus ridership increases both inside and outside the CRZ, while overall travel demand decreases substantially inside the CRZ but increases slightly outside the CRZ. Subway ridership also shows positive… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Spatial distribution of estimated changes relative to expected demand across different transportation modes. Each panel presents the average post-policy change relative to the calibrated counterfactual baseline at the census tract level after the implementation of congestion pricing in New York City. Positive values indicate increased demand relative to the counterfactual baseline, while negative values in… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Socio-demographic correlates of spatial effects across transportation modes. Standardized regression coefficients (β) and corresponding 90% confidence intervals are shown for associations between census-tract socio-demographic characteristics and estimated average effects of congestion pricing. Positive coefficients indicate that areas with higher values of the correspond￾ing predictor experienced larger i… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

New York City implemented the nation's first cordon-based congestion pricing program in January 2025, providing an opportunity to evaluate how system-wide urban mobility responds to large-scale pricing interventions. Because such policies generate spillovers across modes and locations, credible control groups are difficult to construct. We address this challenge using time series foundation models to generate probabilistic counterfactual demand forecasts with calibrated uncertainty. Applying this framework to bus, subway, and aggregate trip volume data, we find that post-policy bus and subway ridership increased significantly relative to expected no-policy demand, while overall travel demand decreased modestly. The effects are spatially heterogeneous: while reductions in overall travel demand are concentrated within the Congestion Relief Zone, transit gains extend beyond Manhattan's core. Socio-demographic analyses further reveal uneven adaptation across neighborhoods, highlighting spatial equity implications. Our framework provides a scalable approach for the uncertainty-aware evaluation of system-wide urban interventions when clean control groups are unavailable.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript evaluates the effects of New York City's January 2025 cordon-based congestion pricing using time series foundation models to generate probabilistic counterfactual demand forecasts. It reports that bus and subway ridership increased significantly relative to no-policy expectations, overall travel demand declined modestly, effects are spatially heterogeneous (with transit gains extending beyond the core and demand reductions concentrated in the Congestion Relief Zone), and socio-demographic analyses show uneven neighborhood adaptation, highlighting equity implications. The framework is presented as a scalable approach for uncertainty-aware policy evaluation without clean control groups.

Significance. If the counterfactual forecasts prove reliable, the work provides empirical evidence on modal shifts and spatial equity under congestion pricing, along with a method for system-wide intervention evaluation in settings lacking controls. The emphasis on calibrated uncertainty and foundation models for counterfactuals could strengthen causal inference in urban mobility studies if validation is demonstrated.

major comments (3)
  1. [Methods] Methods section: No quantitative validation is reported for the time series foundation models, such as empirical coverage rates, calibration plots, or performance on pre-policy rolling-origin hold-out forecasts; without this, it is impossible to assess whether the probabilistic counterfactuals reliably represent the no-policy scenario or whether unmodeled trends are absorbed into the estimated treatment effects.
  2. [Results] Results section (and abstract): The headline claims of significant transit ridership gains and modest aggregate demand reduction are identified exclusively via comparison of observed post-January 2025 series to the foundation-model counterfactuals; absent evidence that the models achieve nominal coverage or robustness to alternative backbones on hold-out data, the treatment-effect estimates rest on an untested assumption.
  3. [Socio-demographic analyses] Socio-demographic analyses subsection: The reported spatial heterogeneity and equity implications depend on the same counterfactual framework; any bias in the no-policy forecasts would propagate directly into the neighborhood-level adaptation findings, yet no sensitivity checks or alternative model specifications are described.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The high-level description of findings would benefit from at least one quantitative effect size or confidence interval to convey the magnitude of the reported changes.
  2. [Methods] Notation: The term 'calibrated uncertainty' is used without a precise definition or reference to the specific calibration procedure employed by the foundation models.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below and describe the revisions we will make to strengthen the paper.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Methods] Methods section: No quantitative validation is reported for the time series foundation models, such as empirical coverage rates, calibration plots, or performance on pre-policy rolling-origin hold-out forecasts; without this, it is impossible to assess whether the probabilistic counterfactuals reliably represent the no-policy scenario or whether unmodeled trends are absorbed into the estimated treatment effects.

    Authors: We agree that quantitative validation of the foundation models on pre-policy data is essential for assessing counterfactual reliability. The original manuscript emphasized the policy application rather than model diagnostics. In the revised version, we will add a new Methods subsection reporting empirical coverage rates (targeting nominal 95% intervals), calibration plots, and performance metrics on rolling-origin hold-out forecasts using data through December 2024. This will directly address whether unmodeled trends are absorbed into treatment effects. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results section (and abstract): The headline claims of significant transit ridership gains and modest aggregate demand reduction are identified exclusively via comparison of observed post-January 2025 series to the foundation-model counterfactuals; absent evidence that the models achieve nominal coverage or robustness to alternative backbones on hold-out data, the treatment-effect estimates rest on an untested assumption.

    Authors: The results and abstract claims are indeed derived from the counterfactual comparisons. With the addition of the validation metrics described in response to the Methods comment, the treatment-effect estimates will be supported by demonstrated model performance on hold-out data. We will revise the Results section to explicitly reference these validation results when presenting the ridership gains and demand reductions, and we will ensure the abstract accurately reflects the validated framework. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Socio-demographic analyses] Socio-demographic analyses subsection: The reported spatial heterogeneity and equity implications depend on the same counterfactual framework; any bias in the no-policy forecasts would propagate directly into the neighborhood-level adaptation findings, yet no sensitivity checks or alternative model specifications are described.

    Authors: We concur that the spatial heterogeneity and equity findings rely on the counterfactuals, creating potential for bias propagation. In the revised manuscript, we will add sensitivity analyses in the socio-demographic subsection, including results from alternative foundation model backbones and specifications. These checks will be presented to demonstrate robustness of the neighborhood-level adaptation patterns. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: counterfactual forecasts are generated from pre-policy trained models and compared externally to post-policy observations

full rationale

The paper's core identification strategy relies on time-series foundation models trained on historical data to produce probabilistic forecasts of no-policy demand after the January 2025 policy. Observed post-policy series are then compared against these forecasts. This structure does not reduce the estimated treatment effects to fitted quantities by construction, nor does it invoke self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes that collapse the result into the inputs. No equations or method descriptions in the provided text exhibit self-definitional, fitted-input-renamed-as-prediction, or self-citation load-bearing patterns. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

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