Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

1. Dyckerhoff, H., Hörcher, D., & Graham, D. J. (2025). Heterogeneous radial commuting bottlenecks with agglomeration economies: Methods and calibration for Bogotá. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 192, 104331.

2. Xuto, P., Bansal, P., Anderson, R. J., Graham, D. J., Hörcher, D., & Barron, A. (2023). Examining the impacts of capital investment in London’s Underground: A long-term analysis. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 175, 103744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103744 

3. Strommer, T., Hörcher, D., & Munkácsy, A. (2023). Crowding externalities and optimal subsidies in public transport: Revisiting the Parry–Small model. Research in Transportation Economics, 100, 101324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2023.101324 

4. Hörcher, D., De Borger, B., & Graham, D. J. (2023). Subsidised transport services in a fiscal federation: Why local governments may be against decentralised service provision. Economics of Transportation, 34, 100312. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.2023.100312 

5. Singh, R., Hörcher, D., & Graham, D. J. (2023). An evaluation framework for operational interventions on urban mass public transport during a pandemic. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 5163. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31892-2 

6. Zimmo, I., Hörcher, D., Singh, R., & Graham, D. J. (2023). Benchmarking travel time and demand prediction methods using large-scale metro smart card data. Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering, 51(4), 357-374. https://doi.org/10.3311/PPtr.22252 

7. Anupriya, Graham, D. J., Bansal, P., Hörcher, D., & Anderson, R. (2023). Optimal congestion control strategies for near-capacity urban metros: Informing intervention via fundamental diagrams. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 609, 128390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2022.128390 

8. Xuto, P., Anderson, R. J., Graham, D. J., & Hörcher, D. (2023). Sustainable urban rail funding: Insights from a century-long global dataset. Transport Policy, 130, 100-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.10.005 

9. Zhang, N., Graham, D. J., Bansal, P., & Hörcher, D. (2022). Detecting metro service disruptions via large-scale vehicle location data. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 144, 103880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2022.103880 

10. Hörcher, D., & Graham, D. J. (2022). Multimodal substitutes in public transport: Efficient variety or wasteful competition?. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 56(1), 1-27.

11. Bansal, P., Hörcher, D., & Graham, D.J. (2022) A dynamic choice model to estimate the user cost of crowding with large-scale transit data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12804 

12. Hörcher, D., Singh, R., & Graham, D. J. (2021). Social distancing in public transport: mobilising new technologies for demand management under the Covid-19 crisis. Transportation, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-021-10192-6 

13. Hörcher, D., & Tirachini, A. (2021). A review of public transport economics. Economics of Transportation, 25, 100196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.2021.100196 

14. Xuto, P., Anderson, R. J., Graham, D. J., & Hörcher, D. (2021). Optimal infrastructure reinvestment in urban rail systems: A dynamic supply optimisation approach. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 147, 251-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.03.009 

15. Zhang, N., Graham, D. J., Hörcher, D., & Bansal, P. (2021). A causal inference approach to measure the vulnerability of urban metro systems. Transportation, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-020-10152-6 

16. Singh, R., Graham, D. J., Hörcher, D., & Anderson, R. J. (2021). The boundary between random and non-random passenger arrivals: Robust empirical evidence and economic implications. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 130, 103267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2021.103267 

17. Hörcher, D., & Graham, D. J. (2021). The Gini index of demand imbalances in public transport. Transportation, 48(5), 2521-2544. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-020-10138-4 

18. Hörcher, D., De Borger, B., Seifu, W., & Graham, D. J. (2020). Public transport provision under agglomeration economies. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 81, 103503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2019.103503 

19. Hörcher, D., & Graham, D. J. (2020). MaaS economics: Should we fight car ownership with subscriptions to alternative modes?. Economics of Transportation, 22, 100167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecotra.2020.100167 

20. Singh, R., Hörcher, D., Graham, D. J., & Anderson, R. J. (2020). Decomposing journey times on urban metro systems via semiparametric mixed methods. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 114, 140-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2020.01.022 

21. Anupriya, Graham, D. J., Hörcher, D., Anderson, R. J., & Bansal, P. (2020). Quantifying the ex-post causal impact of differential pricing on commuter trip scheduling in Hong Kong. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 141, 16-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2020.08.011 

22. Lu, Q., Tettamanti, T., Hörcher, D., & Varga, I. (2020). The impact of autonomous vehicles on urban traffic network capacity: an experimental analysis by microscopic traffic simulation. Transportation Letters, 12(8), 540-549. https://doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2019.1662561 

23. Hörcher, D., & Graham, D. J. (2018). Demand imbalances and multi-period public transport supply. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 108, 106-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2017.12.009 

24. Hörcher, D., Graham, D. J., & Anderson, R. J. (2018). The economics of seat provision in public transport. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 109, 277-292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2017.11.011 

25. Hörcher, D., Graham, D. J., & Anderson, R. J. (2018). The economic inefficiency of travel passes under crowding externalities and endogenous capacity. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 52(1), 1-22.

26. Hörcher, D., Graham, D. J., & Anderson, R. J. (2017). Crowding cost estimation with large scale smart card and vehicle location data. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 95, 105-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2016.10.015 

Edited book

1. Tirachini, A., Hörcher, D., & Verhoef, E. T. (Eds.). (2023). Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375550 

Book chapters

1. Hörcher, D., Tirachini, A., & Verhoef, E. T. (2023). Introduction to the Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing. In Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing (pp. 1-7). Edward Elgar Publishing, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375550.00005  

2. Jara-Díaz, S., Gschwender, A., & Hörcher, D. (2023). Public transport: design, scale, and pricing. In Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing (pp. 171-189). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375550.00016 

3. Matyas, M., Hörcher, D., & Pawlak, J. (2022) Transport and mobility. In: Mátyás, L. (ed), Emerging European Economies after the Pandemic. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Cambridge. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93963-2_5 

4. Graham, D. J., Hörcher, D., & Vickerman, R. (2022). Infrastructure and the competitiveness of cities. In: Gómez-Ibáñez, J. & Liu, Z. (Eds) Infrastructure Economics and Policy: International Perspectives. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Mass., USA, pp. 120-139.

5. Hörcher, D. (2021). Value of crowding. In: Vickerman, R. (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Transportation, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102671-7.10014-4 

6. Monchambert, G., Hörcher, D., Tirachini, A., Coulombel, N. (2021). Subway systems. In: Vickerman, R. (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Transportation, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102671-7.10470-1