There is at present little information on the way consumers will react to changes in fares and waiting times in the taxi sector. For policy formulation, such insight is important and the Ministry of Transport in the Netherlands has decided to undertake a study to get more insight into these reactions. A Stated Preference survey was conducted among 300 users and non users of taxis in the Netherlands. The respondents were asked for a certain trip by taxi to choose between several attributes such as fare level, waiting time, aspects of comfort and travel time. From the information of the SP survey, fare and waiting time elasticities can be calculated. This paper describes the background of the study, the SP method used and will show the estimated elasticities.
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