Track Access Charges Summit 2018

The Netherlands

Gerard de Jong
Director of Significance BV, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds

Presentation title:
Determining price elasticities of demand for rail transport

Summary:
In order to apply market-can-bear tests, price elasticities of demand for rail transport need to be determined (by market segment). This refers to the final consumers of rail transport services: the travellers for passenger transport and shippers and logistics service providers in freight transport.
Price elasticities of demand for rail transport by these agents can be determined using three different methods:

The presentation will discuss all three methods giving some examples.

Speaker biography:
Gerard de Jong is Director of Significance BV in The Netherlands and Research Professor at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. He studied spatial economics and obtained a PhD in econometrics in 1989. He has worked on many international, national and regional model systems in passenger and freight transport. Presently he is involved in market-can bear studies in The Netherlands and Austria.

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