Preferences for long-distance coach transport: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Veronique Van Acker, Roselinde Kessels, Daniel Palhazi Cuervo, Steven Lannoo, Frank Witlox

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

Long-distance travel rapidly increased in recent decades. This can be attributed to economic growth, increased car ownership and technological innovations. Improvements in highway, train and airport infrastructure reduced transport costs and times while increasing safety (Arbués et al., 2016). This allowed people to shift to faster modes of transport. At the same time, people’s total daily travel time budget remained relatively constant (for a review on travel time budget studies, see Mokhtarian and Chen, 2004, Ahmed and Stopher, 2014), allowing people to travel further and thus resulting in a rising demand for long-distance travel. Although long-distance trips only represent a small share of all trips, it constitutes a high share of total distance travelled and, as such, contributes significantly to energy consumption and the emission of pollutants (Aamaas et al., 2013). (...)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)759-779
Number of pages21
JournalTransportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice
Volume132
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2020

Keywords

  • long-distance
  • transport
  • bus
  • train

Cite this