MARGINAL COSTS IN LOCAL AND REGIONAL TRANSPORT
MARGINALKOSTNADER I LOKAL OCH REGIONAL KOLLEKTIVTRAFIK
This study was initiated by the Swedish Transport Ministry. The ministry wanted to update its figures on "average social marginal costs" for a change in transport demand by plus or minus 20 percent, within a project on "cost responsibility and pricing systems". This study is meant to contribute to the ministry's figures concerning "local and regional public transport". It also aims at providing the Swedish regional public transport authorities with methods for calculation of "marginal costs". One part of the study concerns the derivation of cost functions for the public transport operator and the passengers. This is done for peak and off-peak, for local, urban and regional transport and for bus and underground respectively. Passengers travel time components are transferred into money terms by values of time. The other part of the study presents the calculated marginal costs for the cities stockholm and Vaesteraas, from the base given by the present capacity level of public transport, no matter if this level is optimum or not. The marginal costs assuming a short run demand change are compared with the marginal costs assuming a long run stable demand change. This comparison will then also allow recommendations whether capacity should be increased or not. The analysis of cost structures also allowed calculations of "optimal headways" and, for example, of the implied cost by transferring passengers from the peak to the off-peak periods. (Author/TRRL)
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Corporate Authors:
Kollektivtrafikberedningen
P.O. Box 1339
Solna, Sweden - Publication Date: 1984
Language
- Swedish
Media Info
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 117 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Accuracy; Bus transportation; Buses; Costs; Demand; Districts and authorities; Economics; Hours; Local government agencies; Marginal costs; Mathematical models; Off peak periods; Optimization; Passengers; Peak periods; Planning; Pricing; Public transit; Rapid transit; Regional planning; Regional transportation; Rural areas; Sensitivity; Subways; Transit operators; Transportation; Transportation departments; Transportation planning; Travel demand; Travel time; Trip length; Urban areas
- Geographic Terms: Sweden
- ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 224: Cost; 285: Demand (econ); 6440: Error; 697: Journey time; 192: Local authority; 6473: Mathematical model; 611: Off peak hour; 612: Peak hour; 143: Planning; 744: Public transport; 359: Regional planning; 328: Rural area; 5928: Sensitivity; 8109: Sweden; 253: Transport authority; 1191: Underground railway; 313: Urban area; 1715: Vehicle occupant
- Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00399622
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
- Report/Paper Numbers: KTB Rapport 1984:16 Monograph
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Nov 30 1985 12:00AM