The primary goal of this research is to undertake a stated preference study of rail business travellers to obtain direct evidence on the productiveuse of travel time during the course of work and to assess its impact on the work value of marginal travel time savings. The issues addressed were linked to the so-called Hensher approach to the valuation of business travel time, and covered: Estimation of the degree of productive use of traveltime, split into factorsûwhich would influence the productive use of travel time; Assessing the productivity of work done while travelling on the train relative to work done at workplace, and what effects this productivity level; Examining where productive work occurs during the rail journey, and how this would be impacted on by marginal travel time savings or extensions; Assessing whether any personal welfare gain was enjoyed with any time savings, if so, assess business travellers' willingness to pay for these personal welfare gains. These questions were investigated through a survey conducted early in 2008. A provisional commentary upon how the results obtained may be applied and what effects they might have on the appraisal of rail related transport schemes is provided. For the covering abstract see ITRD E145999
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