Competition and substitution between public transport modes

Nils Fearnley, Graham Currie, Stefan Flügel, Fredrik A. Gregersen, Marit Killi, Jeremy Toner and Mark Wardman

Research in Transportation Economics, 2018, vol. 69, issue C, 51-58

Abstract: The management and understanding of modal split between public transport (PT) modes is of interest for numerous reasons. It may, for example, be desirable to stimulate passengers to switch from crowded buses and over to higher capacity rail. This requires a good understanding of drivers of transit modal substitution.

Keywords: Passenger transport; Demand; Cross-elasticity; Substitution; Mode shift (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R41 R42 R48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2018.05.005

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