Arbeitspapier

Rarely Enjoyed? A Count Data Analysis of Ridership in Germany's Public Transport

Focusing on adult members of German households, this paper investigates the determinants of public transit ridership with the aim of quantifying the effects of fuel prices, fares, person-level attributes, and characteristics of the transit system on transport counts over a five-day week. The reliance on individual data raises several conceptual and empirical issues, the most fundamental of which is the large proportion of zero values in transit counts. To accommodate this feature of the data, we employ modeling procedures referred to as zero-inflated models (ZIMs), which order observations into two latent regimes defined by whether the individual never uses public transport. Our estimates reveal fuel prices to have a positive and substantial influence on transit ridership, though there is no evidence for a statistically signifi cant impact of the fare.

ISBN
978-3-86788-240-8
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 209

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Energy: Demand and Supply; Prices
Thema
transit ridership
pricing policy
Zero-Inflated Models
household data

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Frondel, Manuel
Vance, Colin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
(wo)
Essen
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Frondel, Manuel
  • Vance, Colin
  • Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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