Multimodal Travel Groups and Attitude: Latent-Class Cluster Analysis

For developing sustainable travel policies, it may be helpful to identify travelers that make use of more than one mode in a given time period, hence multimodal travelers. Especially it is of interest to identify car drivers who also use public transport, as it is suggested in the literature that this group may have less biased public transport perceptions and may develop different attitudes towards public transport. As this has not received much research attention yet, this is the focus of this paper. Latent class cluster analysis is applied to identify multimodal travel groups based on the frequency of use of car, bicycle, train and BTM (bus, tram, metro). In addition, the authors explore the effects of a range of socio-demographic, work related and mode perception and attitude variables on the probability of belonging to each of the five identified multimodal travel groups. The results indicate that the group who uses the car most often indeed has more negative perceptions and attitudes towards public transport, while frequent car users who also use public transport have less negative public transport perceptions and attitudes. Furthermore, the authors found that the group who uses public transport most often is not the most positive about public transport. The latter is the case for the group who bicycles most often and also uses public transport. The results further indicate relatively favorable car attitudes among the public transport group, suggesting that at least part of this group will use the car more often once they can afford it.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Transportation Demand Forecasting. Alternate title: Multimodal Travel Groups and Attitudes: A Latent Class Cluster Analysis of Dutch Travelers.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Molin, Eric
  • Mokhtarian, Patricia
  • Kroesen, Maarten
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
• Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 23p
• Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Automobile travel; Bicycle travel; Cluster analysis; Multimodal transportation; Public transit; Sustainable transportation
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01556274
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 15-2725
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 3 2015 11:43AM