Journal of Applied Economic Research
ISSN 2712-7435
Transport Preferences of the Growing Generation of Industrial Agglomerations in the Conditions of Mass Automobilization
Leontyeva Yu.V., Mayburov I.A.
Abstract
The article looks at how people react to the introduction to additional transport related fees when using private transport. The authors analyze the methodological framework of laboratory experiments and improve the method of laboratory experiments. The proposed research method is a laboratory experiment based around a consumer behavior survey of students faced with the need to pay additional transport related fees. The article specifies the basic assumptions and variable parameters of the experiment, the key assumption being that all subjects own a car. At stage one of the experiment, the participants earn money; at stage two they decide on the most suitable means of transportation to make a given number of trips. The experiment stipulates the length of the trip, the size of the per-kilometer congestion charge, the parking fee, the price of gasoline, and the public transport fare. Following the experiment, the students' readiness to pay the additional charges or to use public transport is assessed. The gender of the students is the variable parameter of the experiment. Different levels of readiness to use cars instead of travelling by public transport are measured in female and male students in the case of additional transport related charges. It is proven that women exhibit lower levels of readiness to use public transport, while men are more likely to abandon their cars. Different levels of readiness to voluntarily pay the additional transport related charges are measured in female and male students. It is concluded that female drivers exhibit higher levels of propensity and compliance when it comes to paying transport related charges, whereas men need to be kept under tighter control because they are less inclined to voluntarily pay the transport related charges. The aim of the research is to assess behavioral responses of transport fee payers that will make it possible to differentiate between the responses exhibited by male and female inhabitants of urban areas.
Keywords
behavioural responses; laboratory experiments; public transport; private transport
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About Authors
Leontyeva Yulia Vladimirovna – Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Finance and Tax Management Department, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia (620002, Ekaterinburg, Mira street, 19); e-mail: uv.leonteva@mail.ru.
Mayburov Igor Anatolevich – Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Head of Finance and Tax Management Department, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia (620002, Ekaterinburg, Mira street, 19); e-mail: mayburov.home@gmail.com.
For citation
Leontyeva Yu.V., Mayburov I.A. Transport Preferences of the Growing Generation of Industrial Agglomerations in the Conditions of Mass Automobilization. Bulletin of Ural Federal University. Series Economics and Management, 2019, Vol. 18, No. 1, 69-85. DOI: 10.15826/vestnik.2019.18.1.004.
Article info
Received December 25, 2018; Accepted January 21, 2019.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vestnik.2019.19.1.004
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