A PRICE RESISTANCE MODEL FOR PERSONAL TRAVEL

This paper describes the development of a price resistance model for personal travel. The model provides a comprehensive and flexible mechanism for assessing the effect on the demand for travel for any particular mode or modes of cost changes, such as changes in bus fares, petrol prices, parking charges, etc. Both the absolute change in the overall demand for travel associated with any change in cost (considered in terms of both time and money) for a specific mode, and the competitive adjustments in demand between modes as a result of the change are taken into account in the model. The results of a case study on the effect of bus fare increases shows that the models predictive abaility is good and that it is a realistic and robust tool. /Author/

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• Authors:
  • METCALF, A E
  • MARKHAM, J
  • Fenney, B P
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 79-88
• Serial:
  • Regional Studies
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 0034-3404
  • EISSN: 1360-0591
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cres20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transportation; Case studies; Costs; Fares; Forecasting; Gasoline; Mathematical models; Mode S; Pay parking; Prices; Public transit; Travel demand
• Uncontrolled Terms: Change; Models; Parking costs
• Old TRIS Terms: Resistance
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00138294
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 3 1981 12:00AM