The cost of achieving equity in the public transportation subsidies between the Dutch and the international students in the Netherlands
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2019-08-30
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The Netherlands does not give the international students the same transportation subsidy allowed for the Dutch students. This creates a gap of inequity between the different students groups, as both share most of their demographic characteristics and most of their needs. On the other hand, allowing the international students this subsidy scheme would decrease the revenue for the public transportation operators, so they might affect the public transportation operational plans for different means, as for some of them might not have the capacity to add the trips of the international students to their means, so they would run extra trains, buses or other transportation means to face the new situation, so this would definitely add to the operational cost.
This research calculates the cost of allowing the internationals students the same subsidy scheme dedicated to the Dutch students through calculating the loss of revenues and check the added occupancy rates and relate it to the current occupancy rates for the different public transportation in the Netherlands to check if the current operational plans are capable to face these added trips, or that would result in more cost because of changing the operational plans, to estimate this cost.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen