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Drawing on individual-level mobility data from Germany between 1996 and 2009, this analysis econometrically investigates the determinants of automobile, public transit, and non-motorized travel against the backdrop of two questions: 1) Does gender play a role in determining the relative use of...
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We analyze potential gains from hypothetical mergers in local public transport using the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis with bias corrections by means of bootstrapping. Our sample consists of 41 public transport companies from Germany's most densely populated region, North...
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This book presents the proceedings of three related ECMT Round Tables on the future of the car. The first concern the future of car ownership, the second concerns the cost of using a car, and the third concerns changing patterns of car usage.
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German metropolitan area. In extension to most studies focusing on only one kind of subsidy, we compare the effects of … account. The results suggest that optimal subsidy levels are either small or even zero. While subsidizing public transport is …, environmental effects and benefits of landowners. -- Urban general equilibrium model ; transport policy ; transport subsidy …
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Subsidies are considered important means to facilitate the provision of public transit, yet the empirical evidence implies that they can have harming effects on costs and possibly also on operators' performance. This paper examines the impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost...
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German metropolitan area. In extension to most studies focusing on only one kind of subsidy, we compare the effects of … account. The results suggest that optimal subsidy levels are either small or even zero. While subsidizing public transport is …
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