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Abstract:
This study presents a literature review of transit demand elasticities with respect to gas prices, describes features of a transit service area population that may be more sensitive to fuel prices, identifies where stress points in the family of transit services will emerge, and assembles short- and long-term strategies for transit providers to manage their service when there is volatility in fuel prices.
Using panel data of transit ridership and gasoline prices for ten selected U.S. urbanized areas over the time period of 2002 to 2011,this study analyz...
The primary objective of this research is to estimate the "incentive" (price) elasticity of demand for using non-motorized transportation (specificall...
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