Modelling techniques have been used to investigate the effects of higher fuel prices, the introduction of fiscal restraint measures and the elimination of public transport fares in a medium-size town and in a large city. The modelling studies were backed up where possible by independent evidence from studies of actual changes in travel costs. The studies indicate that higher fuel prices would favor public transport use, especially in large towns, and in both types would save fuel: in smaller towns the increased bus travel is almost entirely due to the reduction in car ownership since those who still retain cars under high fuel prices continue to use them but for shorter trips. The study also indicates that the nation-wide decline in bus use would be reduced by higher fuel prices, though unrealistically high prices would be required to actually reverse the trend. The studies suggest that changes in the location of homes and jobs for each of the policies investigated would tend to operate in a direction which favored the use of the private car and so militate against the policies implemented.


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    Title :

    Changing the Cost of Travel: Paper Presented to the World Conference on Transport Research at the Imperial College, London, England in April 1980


    Contributors:
    P. H. Bly (author) / F. V. Webster (author)

    Publication date :

    1981


    Size :

    21 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English