Valuing Convenience in Public Transport
Paris, 12-13 September 2013
Chair
Mark Wardman, Institute for Transport Studies of the University of Leeds,
UK
Summary and Conclusions
Valuing Convenience in Public Transport: Roundtable Summary and Conclusions
Mark WARDMAN, University of Leeds, UK
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(2014-02)
Papers and Presentations
Measuring and Valuing Convenience and Service Quality: A Review of Global Practices and Challenges from Mass Transit Operators
and Railway Industries
Richard ANDERSON, Benjamin CONDRY, Nicholas FINDLAY, Ruben BRAGE-ARDAO & Haojie LI, Imperial College London, UK
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(2013-16) REVISED December 2013
Valuing Convenience in Public Transport in the Korean Context
Sungwon LEE, The Korea Transport Institute, Goyang-si, Korea
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(2013-17) September 2013
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On the Value of Crowding in Public transport for Île-de-France
Eric Kroes & Marco Kouwenhoven, Significance - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, Laurence Debrincat
& Nicolas Pauget, Syndicat des Transports d’Île-de-France
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(2013-18)
Valuation of Urban Rail Service: Experiences from Tokyo, Japan
Hironori KATO, The University of Tokyo, Japan January
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(2014-01)
Analysing Route Choice Decisions on Metro networks: A Comparison between Santiago and London
Sebastián RAVEAU, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Zhan GUO, New York University, Juan Carlos MUÑOZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile & Nigel WILSON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Summary
It is straightforward that making public transport more convenient raises the probability that it will
be chosen over alternative transport modes and can raise overall transport demand. It is less straightforward but crucial to
understand how users value convenience compared to other characteristics of service, and to produce operational and measurable
indicators of convenience. The roundtable will review international experience with measurement of convenience in order to establish
best practice and extract common messages. It also will look into practical use of convenience measures, for example in cost-benefit
analysis and in performance measurement..
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