STUDY OF THE TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR BETWEEN RIO DE JANEIRO, SAO PAULO, AND CAMPINAS

In this paper the passenger-demand studies and the preliminary economic evaluation of policies to meet the passenger travel demand within the Rio de Janeiro-Sao Paulo-Campinas Corridor are summarized; particular attention is paid to the introduction of a high-speed train service. Existing methods for travel-demand forecasting were not judged suitable, both because of their cross-elasticity problems and because of the volume of data required to calibrate them. Accordingly, a new direct-demand model was developed centered on a multilevel multinomial-logit mode-split formulation. By applying this methodology, the main results of the evaluation of high-speed train service showed that it is unlikely to be economically justified for the whole corridor. However, it appears to be warranted for part of the corridor-the Sao Paulo-Campinas link-under all hypotheses adopted.

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• Authors:
  • Bertucci, Valerio J
  • O'Keefe, Hsu Y-H
  • Lago, Paolo A R
  • Soubhia, Weider G
• Conference:
  • 59th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1980-1-21 to 1980-1-25
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1-7
• Monograph Title: Travel demand models: application, limitations and quantitative methods
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 775
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; High speed ground transportation; Intercity transportation; Logits; Modal split; Railroad transportation; Transportation corridors; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00334187
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309031192
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 28 1981 12:00AM