- Additional Authors
- ITF.
- Description
- 180 p.; 21x28cm.
- Summary
- The experience of transport systems users, in terms of comfort, reliability, safety and above all convenience, is critical in determining demand for transport services, at least when there is a choice of alternative ways to travel. Convenience is one of the strongest attractions of the private car for passenger transport. For users of public transport, convenience is also clearly important but not always clearly defined and not often measured in designing transport systems or monitoring their operating performance. In many situations, an increase in public transport convenience reduces the unit costs of travel (euros/dollars per hour or cents per minute) and so provides benefits equivalent to an increase in travel speed. This report focuses on convenience and its importance to the user experience. It reviews operational definitions of convenience, evidence for the willingness of users to pay for convenience and the use of indicators to assess and improve the convenience of public transport, with a view to making it more effective and more competitive.
- Series Statement
- ITF Round Tables, 2074-336X ; no.156
- Uniform Title
- ITF Round Tables, no.156.
- Subject
- Transport
- Contents
- Executive Summary -- Summary of discussions -- Measuring and valuing convenience -- Valuation of urban rail service -- Valuing convenience in public transport in the Korean context -- Crowding on public transport for Île-de-france -- List of participants.
- ISBN
- 9789282107683
- LCCN
- 10.1787/9789282107683-en
- OCLC
- oecd-lib
- Author
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- Title
Valuing Convenience in Public Transport [electronic resource] / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and ITF
- Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2014.
- Series
ITF Round Tables, 2074-336X ; no.156
ITF Round Tables, 2074-336X ; no.156.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Transport
- Added Author
ITF.
- Other Editions:
Évaluer la commodité d'usage des transports publics 9789282107706 fre
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/9789282107683-en doi