Research project
New stations “disbenefits”: do through-passengers really stop using rail?
- Start date: 1 January 2024
- End date: 1 October 2024
- Funder: RSSB
- Value: £20,000
- Primary investigator: Dr Manuel Ojeda Cabral
- Co-investigators: Dr Alexander Stead
When a new station is opened, it often increases the travel time for ‘through-passenger’ flows by 2 to 4 minutes. The BCRs of new station proposals have been shown to be highly sensitive to the associated through-passenger demand reductions. This project investigates the ex-post effects of some stations to better understand whether and to what extent ‘through-passengers’ really stop using rail.
This project was funded via the RSSB-ITS academic partnership in rail economics