Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
Do subsides provided to public transport in Madrid favor vertical equity?
Año:2014
Áreas de investigación
  • Transporte
Datos
Descripción
Despite the widespread implementation of subsidy policies for urban transport in many cities, the equity evaluation of these policies still remains limited. There is scarce quantitative assessment of the distributional incidence of transport subsidy policies. This paper contributes to fill this research gap by developing a practical approach to evaluate the impact of fare subsidization on vertical equity. In the paper we implement a two-step methodology. First, we develop two main indicators to measure the social impacts of the ?travel pass?, which is a highly subsidized fare in order to examine the policy for its effectiveness in reaching the poor. Second, by using the latest disaggregated data from Madrid?s Transportation Survey, we fitted a multiple regression model which found out that the use of the travel pass depends fundamentally on income level and accessibility to public transport. Since the quality of accessibility in the city is quite homogeneous, the subsidy policy associated with the travel pass is shown to be progressive because it is well targeted towards economically disadvantaged groups. Consequently, there seems to be evidence that subsidies provided to public transport in Madrid tend to favor vertical equity.
Internacional
No
Nombre congreso
XI Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte: camino hacia el progreso
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Santander
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-84-697-0359-5
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
09/06/2014
Fecha fin congreso
11/06/2014
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Título de las actas
Actas del XI Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte
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Participantes
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Planificación del Transporte
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de Investigación del Transporte
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Civil: Transporte y Territorio