Changes in travel time across modes and its impact on the demand for inter-urban rail travel

The use of stated preference techniques to model modal choices on interurban trips in Ireland

“…Ponnuswamy (2004) finds out to what extent the fare structure and service level a ect the patronage of urban rail transit in India. Other researchers such as Bel (1997) have looked at the impacts of non-monetary characteristics, such as travel time, on rail demand on interurban trips. Bel (1997) points out that journey time by rail represents a negative rela-tionship with rail demand.…”

“…Other researchers such as Bel (1997) have looked at the impacts of non-monetary characteristics, such as travel time, on rail demand on interurban trips. Bel (1997) points out that journey time by rail represents a negative rela-tionship with rail demand. Bel (1997) stresses the importance of road travel times on interurban rail.…”

Environmental screening tools for assessment of infrastructure plans based on biodiversity preservation and global warming (PEIT, Spain)

“…Morrison and Winston (1985) found that rail demand is elastic with respect to time, estimating it as -1.67 for business trips and -1.58 in vacation trips. Bel (1997) carried out a study with Spanish data and estimated rail travel-time elasticities of -2.66 (for daytime traffic trains below 400 km) and -2.37 for trips over 400 km. Other works of intercity HSR projects planned in Japan, computing short term induced travel elasticities, are presented by Yao and Morikawa (2005).…”

Scheduled Service Versus Personal Transportation: The Role of Distance

“…Thus, although these two previous studies adequately explain the relationship between frequency and distance on long-haul routes, our results suggest that the applicability of their …ndings to short-haul markets is limited. 2 To sum up, the main contribution of this paper is to point out that the relationship between frequency choices and distance depends crucially on the presence of personal trans- The plan of the paper is as follows. Section 2 presents the model and the equilibrium and compares the equilibrium outcome with the social optimum.…”

“…Product di¤erentiation has been analyzed in several studies of the airline industry (e.g., Berry, 1990, Berry et al, 1996, Borenstein and Netz, 1999. However, these studies do not consider the way in which substitutable 1 The issue of mode substitution and its e¤ects has been discussed, for example by Bel (1997), González-Savignat (2004), Janic´(2003) and López-Pita and Robusté (2004). Some studies on choice of transport mode conclude that commuters mostly consider frequency of service (and more generally convenience of service) as one of the factors determining their elasticity (Voith, 1997 andAsensio, 2002); or the impact of urban transit projects (Baum-Snow and Kahn, 2000).…”