Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/97443
Author(s): António Couto
Daniel J. Graham
Title: The impact of high-speed technology on railway demand
Issue Date: 2008
Abstract: 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.
Subject: Economia dos transportes, Economia e gestão
Transport economics, Economics and Business
Scientific areas: Ciências sociais::Economia e gestão
Social sciences::Economics and Business
URI: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/97443
Document Type: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
Rights: restrictedAccess
Appears in Collections:FEUP - Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional

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