Substitute behaviour
of rail and bus passengers travelling long distances (+50km) in Switzerland
Project details
Duration
12.2017-12.2020
Sponsor
external pageSBB Swiss Federal Railways
Staff
Prof. K.W. Axhausen, T. Schatzmann and Dr. R. Tanner
Abstract
The main focus of this study is examining the substitution behaviour between train and bus of public transportation (PT) customers in long distance travel. The study has two parts. Part one focusses on capturing consumers’ behaviour. The second part focusses on consumers’ preferences, the willingness to pay for different means of transport given some comfort features and forecasting their market share. In part one, the consumers’ behaviour is captured by a Online-access-panel based survey, it focuses on current long distances journeys inside Switzerland, attitudes and socio-demographics of the respondent. Based on two of those journeys, ideally a leisure and a business one, we will construct two stated choice experiments to explore the trade-offs which the respondents make between the long-distance modes, car, train, coach (long distance bus) by varying the number of changes, the access/egress and travel time, comfort features and the price of the modal alternatives.