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An Elastic Analysis on Urban Public Transport Priority in Beijing

Year: 2012

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Urban public transport (UPT) is an important part of social public welfare closely related to peoples’ daily lives and social economic development. The paper presents the detailed implementations of public transport priority (PTP) in Beijing city and analyzes the traffic operation status after the strategy. Then, an elastic analysis is conducted to measure the elasticity of UPT price demand. It also discusses the cross price elasticity of demands among UPT, car and bicycles. The results show that the UPT travel needs elastic prices. The relationship between UPT and car is complemented, and its relationship with bicycle is substitutable. The UPT demand growth is transferred from bicycle travelers. Low-price strategy in Beijing still has not achieved the expected purpose of attracting car travelers.

Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.04.080

Authors: Mingjun Liu, Yang Jiang, Lingling Yang, Zheng Zhang

Institutions: National Development and Reform Commission, China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd. (China), Beijing Jiaotong University

Language: English

Topic: Transportation Planning and Optimization

Subfield: Transportation

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Development and Reform Commission, National Key Research and Development Program of China