How Transport Policy Shapes Commuting Patterns: The Case of the Bratislava Sub-urban Area

The authors analyse the commuting patterns in Bratislava’s fast growing sub-urban region with sub-optimally developed infrastructure. A standardized discrete choice model is used to estimate the demand for individual car transport as well as public buses and trains, and to obtain corresponding elasticities with respect to travel costs, times and income. The authors find a low rate of substitution between the available modes of transport. The direct price elasticity for public modes of transport is in accordance with the often-quoted rule of thumb of -0.3. Negative income elasticities of the demand for buses and trains, together with a low direct price elasticity for car transport can be hard to overcome when looking for a solution for the current traffic problems in the region. The authors use modelled demand to predict the effects of two recent draft policies – the new parking system in Bratislava city and the construction of highway D4R7. In the case of the first policy, the authors expect a massive reduction in car use due to increased costs for car commuters. On the other hand, the new highway would only have a limited impact on mode choice and could reduce the number of train commuters.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2021.02.011
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213624X21000316
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  • © 2021 World Conference on Transport Research Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Dujava, Daniel
  • Kališ, Richard
• Publication Date: 2021-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 567-577
• Serial:
  • Case Studies on Transport Policy
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2213-624X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2213624X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile travel; Commuting; Infrastructure; Mode choice; Public transit; Suburbs; Transportation policy; Travel patterns
• Geographic Terms: Bratislava (Slovakia)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01769298
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 9 2021 5:33PM