Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • apa.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Large increases in bus use in Sweden: Lessons learned
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute; Linköping University.
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Karlstad Business School (from 2013). Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7475-680X
AFRY.
2021 (English)In: Handbook of Public Transport Research, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, p. 434-453Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Since the turn of the century, the demand for public transport has increased by nearly 50 percent in Sweden. However, supply has increased faster than demand and the total cost has increased faster than supply, entailing increased subsidies and fares. This chapter summarizes lessons learned from the aggregate trends in Sweden, as well as experiences from some cities. Our analysis indicates that, while demand has increased substantially, the effect on car use is unclear. The occupancy rate has not been maintained outside the big cities. Comparing cities, we find that adopting a long-term and systematic focus on customer-oriented design and marketing, in combination with substantially increased supply, has achieved increased attractiveness and use, while a new super bus concept has only had a limited impact. We underscore that, when implementing public transport improvements, public transport authorities have a lot to gain from systematic data collection enabling evaluation against the objectives.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. p. 434-453
National Category
Transport Systems and Logistics
Research subject
Business Administration; Psychology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-91084Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85129575115ISBN: 9781788978668 (print)ISBN: 9781788978651 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-91084DiVA, id: diva2:1679588
Available from: 2022-07-01 Created: 2022-07-01 Last updated: 2026-02-12Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Scopus

Authority records

Friman, Margareta

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Friman, Margareta
By organisation
Karlstad Business School (from 2013)Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013)
Transport Systems and Logistics

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

isbn
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

isbn
urn-nbn
Total: 354 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • apa.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf