The analysis of determinants of public transport demand in the city of Perugia

There are several ways for promoting public transport demand. Perugia achieved a leading national position in the last decade by a tariff reform and provisioning an integrated local public transport included lifts and escalators. Since 1996 the number of demand trips is constantly increased and since then the demand has increased of 41%. This paper has two objectives. The first one is to identify the factors underlying the performance of local public transport in Perugia so an aggregate demand function is estimated for bus and urban railway trips in order to present evidences on demand elasticities with respect to the main attribute of local public transport and to the socio-demographic characteristics. The second aim is to evaluate the impact of the tariff reform and the consequences of the introduction of multiride tickets estimating a system of own and cross-prices elasticities for different ticket types.