Potentials for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by inducing modal shift in European long-distance passenger travel

Long-distance person transport contributes significantly to the GHG-emissions of all person transport. The EU aims for reducing the emissions by inducing a significant modal shift to the train, raising its market share to at least 50% on medium distances in 2050. This implies that the current share has to be multiplied by four. The paper...

Road pricing in the Netherlands

This chapter presents an overview of policy intentions in the Netherlands related to road pricing since 1988/1990 and will discuss dominant factors for not implementing any road pricing policy so far. The contribution is limited to the payment of road use, excluding taxes on fuel and parking policies. The main conclusion is that, although the...

Substitutability as a concept to understand travel behaviour and its implications

In this paper we propose the concept of Substitutability and define it as ‘the extent to which one or multiple characteristics of the preferred travel behaviour alternative can be substituted by alternatives’. Characteristics include activity choice, mode choice, time choice, and route choice We argue it is a promising concept, which is relevant...

Performances of the HL (Hyperloop) transport system

This paper deals with an analysis of performances of the HL (Hyperloop) transport system considered as an advanced transport alternative to the existing APT (Air Passenger Transport) and HSR (High Speed Rail) systems. The considered performances are operational, financial, social and environmental. The operational performance include capacity...

Improving the problem analysis in cost-benefit analysis for transport projects: An explorative study

Key actors (consultants, scientists and policy makers) in the Netherlands transport policy cost-benefit analysis (CBA) practice consider ‘problem analysis’ to be one of the important CBA substantive problems. Their idea is that a good-quality problem analysis can help to identify proper solutions, among others. However, the Netherlands key...

Development of cycling and influential demand factors in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands, the share of the bicycle as the main mode in all person trips has been highly constant in the past three decades (about 27%). A constant share is remarkable because developments in this period were mainly unfavourable for bicycle use, like ageing of the population, growing number of immigrants, increasing car ownership, and a...