The impact of high-speed technology on railway demand

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2008

Autores

António Couto (Autor) FEUP; Daniel J. Graham (Autor) Outra

Revista

Título: Transportation

Vol. 35 Nº 1

Páginas: 111-128

ISSN: 0049-4488

Editora: Springer Nature

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 12 Citações

ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 12 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências sociais > Economia e gestão

CORDIS: Ciências Sociais > Economia > Economia dos transportes

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-004-4YN

DOI: 10.1007/s11116-007-9138-4

Abstract (EN): This paper estimates a passenger railway demand function to analyse effects arising from the introduction and use of high-speed technologies. The paper reports estimates of demand elasticities with respect to price, income, quality of service and a range of exogenous characteristics. The results show that travel time savings from conventional high-speed technology have a larger impact on passenger demand than tilting train technology. The introduction of conventional high-speed technology is associated with an 8% increase in passenger railway demand. Increasing the use of either type of high-speed technology appears to induce small positive effects on demand beyond those obtained from usual traffic density increases on non-high-speed existing technology.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 18