NDLI: She’s got a ticket to ride: gender and public transit passes

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Vance, Colin Peistrup, Matthias
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Drawing on a household survey spanning 1997–2007 from Germany, this analysis investigates the decision to purchase a weekly or monthly transit pass against the backdrop of two questions: (1) Does gender play a role in determining the probability that an individual owns a pass? (2) If so, how is this role mitigated or exacerbated by other socioeconomic attributes of the individual and the household in which they reside? These questions are pursued through a combination of descriptive analyses and econometric methods, the latter of which relies on variants of the probit- and heteroskedastic probit model to control for the effects of unobserved heterogeneity that could otherwise induce biased estimates. The model uncovers several determinants of transit pass patronage over which policy makers have direct leverage, including fuel prices, the siting of transit stops, and the density of transit service. Moreover, while women are found to have a higher probability of owning a transit pass than men, the model identifies few variables whose impact differs according to gender, with the two exceptions being the number of children in the household and the distance to work. This absence of differential effects implies that policy measures to increase ridership are likely to have a roughly uniform impact among women and men.
Starting Page	1105
Ending Page	1119
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00494488
Journal	Transportation
Volume Number	39
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	15729435
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-10-29
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Public transit Household data Heteroskedastic probit Innovation/Technology Management Economic Geography Regional/Spatial Science Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Development Transportation Civil and Structural Engineering

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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