Putting our money to good use: Can we attract more passengers without increasing subsidies?

Johan Holmgren

Research in Transportation Economics, 2010, vol. 29, issue 1, 256-260

Abstract: This paper evaluates the policy of Swedish public transport authorities, determining whether the number of trips on local public transport could have been increased without increasing subsidies. Based on annual data from Swedish counties, the evaluation found that between 1986 and 2001 public transport fares exceeded the passenger-maximising fare most of the time in all but two counties, the average deviation being 1-215%. Evaluating the alternative, passenger-maximising policy, including both fare and service changes for 2001, demonstrated that demand for local public transport in Swedish counties could have been increased by 0-178% without increasing subsidies. Aggregated, this represents a 2.3% increase in the number of trips on local public transport in Sweden.

Keywords: Public; transport; Demand; Supply; Fare; Subsidies; Maximisation; Elasticity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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