Authors
Fay Dunkerley, Mark Wardman, Charlene Rohr, Nils Fearnley
Publication date
2018/2
Journal
RAND Corporation
Description
This report has been produced for the UK Department for Transport. It provides evidence on bus fare and journey time elasticities and diversion factors for all modes. The study uses a rapid-evidence review process, starting with systematic identification of relevant academic and grey literature through structured database searches as well as making enquiries to experts in the field in our networks to identify material, such as unpublished studies. This report summarises the key findings from analysis of the resulting evidence, as well as providing recommendations on values to be used in demand forecasting, appraisal and policymaking and identifying evidence gaps. While the primary audience for the document is the UK Department for Transport, it may be of wider interest for transport researchers and transport planners who wish to understand better the bus elasticities and diversion factors. RAND Europe is an independent not-for-profit policy research organisation that serves the public interest by improving policymaking and informing public debate. Our clients are European governments, institutions, and companies with a need for rigorous, impartial, multidisciplinary analysis. This report has been peer-reviewed in accordance with RAND's quality assurance standards (see http://www. rand. org/about/standards/) and therefore may be represented as a RAND Europe product. SYSTRA provides advice on transport and other policy areas to central, regional and local government, agencies, developers, operators and financiers. It has a long and distinguished track record of delivering fresh research findings coupled with an appreciation of using …
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