Modeling Participation and Consumption in the Greek Interurban Public Transportation Market

This paper investigates the Greek household travel demand for domestic interurban public transportation using cross-sectional micro-data from a countrywide Household Budget Survey. A number of limited dependent variable models, including the Heckit, 2-Part, and Double-Hurdle models, are implemented to jointly estimate the probability of selecting a specific mode and the amount of using it. The results provide useful insight into the existence of feedback relationships between the decisionmaking mechanisms of mode selection and amount of usage, and they demonstrate the predominant effect of income on the demand for coaches, railways, airplanes, and coast-wise sea ferries.

• Record URL:
  http://doi.org/10.5038/2375-0901.11.2.5
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Tsekeris, Theodore
  • Dimitriou, Loukas
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 85-104
• Serial:
  • Journal of Public Transportation
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: University of South Florida, Tampa
  • ISSN: 1077-291X
  • EISSN: 2375-0901
  • Serial URL: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jpt/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Households; Intercity transportation; Public transit; Travel behavior; Travel demand
• Geographic Terms: Greece
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01105210
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 28 2008 2:07PM