INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RAIL AND CAR IN THE INTERURBAN LEISURE TRAVEL MARKET IN GREAT-BRITAIN

This paper demonstrates that the potential far diverting inter-urban l eisure travellers from car to rail is lower when rail services are imp roved instead of applying restrictive measures to reduce car use. This is because of the low cross-elasticities of demand for car with respe ct to rail characteristics. It is very important that attention is pai d to identifying the appropriate functional form of the model particul arly when modelling the effects of large changes, or when seeking to a pply the model to situations with different cross-sectional characteri stics. It is also important to distinguish between people travelling a lone and people travelling in a group.