This study evaluates the effects of opening new segments of mass rapid transit (MRT) lines on housing prices near the MRT stations in Tucheng District and Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The effect of proximity to each MRT station is estimated separately with...

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag beschreiben wir die exemplarische Anwendung der Choice-Based-Conjoint-Analyse (CBCA) in der ÖPNV-Kaufverhaltensforschung. Ausgehend von den Ergebnissen einer Befragung von mehr als 1000 Abo-Kunden eines deutschen Verkehrsraumes, welche uns von PROBST & CONSORTEN...

We analyze the technical efficiency of German and Swiss urban public transport companies by means of SFA. In transport networks we might face different network structures or complexities, not observed, but influencing the production process. The unobserved factors are typically modeled as...

Competitive tendering of local bus services in Germany has received increased attention. Employing Seemingly Unrelated Regression analyses, we observe that prices have regionally varying determinants; for example, while prices throughout most of the federal state of Hesse increase over time,...

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...