Forecasting the Impact of Service Quality Changes on the Demand for Inter-Urban Rail travel

Forecasting the Impact of Service Quality Changes on the Demand for Inter-Urban Rail travel

This paper tests the elasticities to time, frequency and interchange implied by an approach which combines these three variables into a single term and compares this approach with models which estimate separate elasticities. The forecasts obtained from different model forms can be appreciably different.

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