Transport prices, touristic flow and policy: the case of the high-speed-railway in Andalusia (Spain)

Francisco Sánchez-Cubo; Javier Sánchez-Rivas García; Inmaculada Crespo-Morán; Francisco Sánchez-Cubo; Javier Sánchez-Rivas García; Inmaculada Crespo-Morán

doi:10.3934/NAR.2021005

National Accounting Review

2021, Volume 3, Issue 1: 95-114. doi: 10.3934/NAR.2021005

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Transport prices, touristic flow and policy: the case of the high-speed-railway in Andalusia (Spain)

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Department of Political Economy and Public Finance, Economic and Business Statistics and Economic Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
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Department of Economic Analysis and Political Economy, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

Received: 29 December 2020 Accepted: 04 February 2021 Published: 07 February 2021
JEL Codes: L92, Q5, R11, R4

The Spanish high-speed train, known as AVE, has been the commitment in Spain's transport infrastructure for the past 25 years. Along the first twenty years of use, however, the use of this means of transport has presented some figures of utilization well below than anticipated, and very far from other countries'—such as Japan or France—figures. In this work, through descriptive and econometric analysis, we demonstrate how certain political decisions, based on the pricing model mainly, have managed to change the trend and maintain a stable growth process in the number of passengers, favouring tourist flows in a country very dependent on tourism such as Spain.
- demand,
- high-speed railway,
- political economics,
- pricing policies,
- transport
Citation: Francisco Sánchez-Cubo, Javier Sánchez-Rivas García, Inmaculada Crespo-Morán. Transport prices, touristic flow and policy: the case of the high-speed-railway in Andalusia (Spain)[J]. National Accounting Review, 2021, 3(1): 95-114. doi: 10.3934/NAR.2021005

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The Spanish high-speed train, known as AVE, has been the commitment in Spain's transport infrastructure for the past 25 years. Along the first twenty years of use, however, the use of this means of transport has presented some figures of utilization well below than anticipated, and very far from other countries'—such as Japan or France—figures. In this work, through descriptive and econometric analysis, we demonstrate how certain political decisions, based on the pricing model mainly, have managed to change the trend and maintain a stable growth process in the number of passengers, favouring tourist flows in a country very dependent on tourism such as Spain.

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