This chapter revisits cross-sectional models of rail travel demand, a much neglected area in recent years, by covering three developments in the context of inter-urban travel. First, the models are extended to allow a detailed analysis of catchment areas; the ticket-sales data that are used to...

Following the 1993 Railways Act, British Rail's passenger business was spilt into 25 train operating units, which have been privatised by a process of franchising. This paper will review the franchising experience to date. First, the results of 38 in-depth interviews with potential bidders for...

It has been suggested that speed limiters will have the most impact on vehicle speeds and hence road safety in general. Whilst it is technically feasible to develop a functional speed control system, it may be more difficult to design a system that drivers actually wish to use. It is essential...

This paper describes the development of a mode choice model for the journey to work with special emphasis on the propensity to cycle. The model combines Revealed Preference (RP) and Stated Preference (SP) data to form a very large and comprehensive model. RP data from the National Travel Survey...

This paper reports research on the valuations of public transport time relative to car travel time and on the valuations of the walk time, wait time and service headway associated with public transport use. The results are derived from a meta-analysis of a very large data set of British...

The Department of Transport's recently launched National Cycling Strategy has the aim of doubling the number of cycle trips by 2002 with a further doubling by 2012. The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution recommended a quadrupling of cycle trips to 10% of all journeys by 2005. Given the...

This paper reports on key findings from a collaborative study whose objective was to produce an up-to-date guidance manual on the factors affecting the demand for public transport for use by public transport operators and planning authorities, and for academics and other researchers. Whilst a...

The aim of this research was to extend direct demand models to analyse elasticity variation in more detail, and in particular to examine the interaction between rail and competing modes. Relatively little is known about the interaction between modes in the inter-urban travel market. We have...