Economic and Environmental Effects of Public Transport Subsidy Policies: a Spatial CGE Model of Beijing

Table 1

Calibrated values of the parameters in SCGE.

City
Incision angle	=5°
Zone width	=4 km
Firms
Production function	B=1.05	=0.65	=0.35
Consumers
Population	N=100 000
Labor	D=250 d	E=4000 h/a		=2000 h/a
Utility function	α=0.40	β=0.17	γ=0.43	η=0.6
Dispersion parameter	=0.8
Travel
Travel modes (tm)
Walking	4 km/h	6.20	0	-	0
Private car	-	7.41	0.3	6.2	0
Public transport	15 km/h	7.16	0.2	-	1.5
Fixed utility function	=-0.1	=-0.3
Transportation
	Zone 1(9)	Zone 2 (8)	Zone 3 (7)	Zone 4 (6)	Zone 5
Road–land proportion	0.05	0.075	0.09	0.12	0.40
Travel time of private car	1/44	1/42	1/40	1/38	1/36
BPR function parameters	b=6	c=4
Gasoline consumption	e=1.26
CO2 emissions	ASCE=11.9 g/pkm