Determining the welfare effects of introducing a cap-and-share scheme on rural commuters

作者：McNamara David; Caulfield Brian^*

来源：Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment , 2011, 16(7): 547-553.

DOI：10.1016/j.trd.2011.06.005

• Cap-and-share schemes
• Rural commuting
• Sparsely populated areas

This paper evaluates the welfare effects of introducing a cap-and-share scheme on the end users of transport in rural Ireland focusing on individuals who undertake daily commute trips. Two regions are studied; the urbanised Dublin Metropolitan Region and the rural Western and Border Region. Economic welfare analysis determine the effects of the scheme on each region. The findings show a significantly higher welfare loss to commuters residing in sparsely populated rural areas in comparison to urban commuters. This finding is also true of commuters living in relatively deprived areas which frequently are also rural regions where the more affluent areas bear less of the welfare loss than deprived areas.

• 出版日期2011-10