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The Impact Of Demand Management On Public Transport Use In Relation To Socio-economic Characteristics

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

26

Pages

9

Published

1996

Size

849 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/UT960041

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

M. Pitsiava-Latinopoulou

Abstract

The paper presents a study on the impact of various demand management policies (i.e. restriction of traffic, improvement of public transport services, road pricing etc.) on public transport use, taking into consideration the socio- economic characteristics of the population. The applied methodology is based on behavioural response and was materialized by asking people to indicate their opinion and attitudes to different demand management implementations. For the purpose of the study the data collection was made through a questionnaire survey using face-to-face method at 500 randomly selected households in the greater area of Thessaloniki, Greece. The analysis and interprentation of the results of the study concer

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