TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Public transport in towns - Inevitably on the decline?
JO  - Research in transportation economics
A1  - Holmgren, Johan
A1  - Jansson, Jan Owen
A1  - Ljungberg, Anders
SP  - 65
EP  - 74
VL  - 23
IS  - 1
N2  - Bus transport in Linköping, a town of 140 000 people, was strongly on the increase up to the beginning of the 1980s, when a negative trend-break occurred. A demand model is developed which explains both the ongoing decline and the preceding increase. Based on this model, it is examined whether a change of the current bus transport policy towards an optimal pricing and investment policy from a social point of view could evoke a new and positive trend-break. Taking current trends in the exogenous factors into account it would. However, this could depend on a possible revival of bicycling in towns.<p /> 
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SN  - 0739-8859
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2008.10.011
ID  - ref1
ER  -