Citation

Holmgren J, Jansson JO, Ljungberg A. Res. Transp. Econ. 2008; 23(1): 65-74.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.retrec.2008.10.011

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Bus transport in Linköping, a town of 140 000 people, was strongly on the increase up to the beginning of the 1980s, when a negative trend-break occurred. A demand model is developed which explains both the ongoing decline and the preceding increase. Based on this model, it is examined whether a change of the current bus transport policy towards an optimal pricing and investment policy from a social point of view could evoke a new and positive trend-break. Taking current trends in the exogenous factors into account it would. However, this could depend on a possible revival of bicycling in towns.