Commuting behavior in emerging urban areas: Findings of a revealed-preferences and stated-intentions survey in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

As an emerging Eastern European country, Romania has demonstrated continuous economic development since the change in its political system in 1989. This has led to increased car ownership and extensive car usage in the country as well as rapid and uncontrolled land usage and expansion of urban areas. The proposed study aims at determining individual and alternative-specific variables that influence citizens' choice of the transportation mode for commuting trips. Data used in the proposed analysis were obtained by means of a computer-assisted telephonic interview survey conducted in the metropolitan area of Cluj-Napoca in July 2015. The one-time retrospective survey assumed an alternative ticketing policy for public transport, and subsequently, a methodology for simultaneously evaluating revealed-preference and stated-intentions mode choices was adopted to evaluate the willingness of commuters to adopt such a policy. As no such study had previously been performed in Romania, this work serves to fill a void in available literature by revealing the role of demographic, socioeconomic, and attitudinal characteristics along with transport supply and built environment in explaining commuting patterns in the country. As age influences the desires and priorities concerning travel behavior, the proposed study sheds light on how generational differences serve to influence urban transport towards sustainability through non-coercive interventions in post-communist transitional societies.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.02.011
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692316301417
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Tosa, Cristian
  • Sato, Hitomi
  • Morikawa, Takayuki
  • Miwa, Tomio
• Publication Date: 2018-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 78-93
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Volume: 68
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0966-6923
  • Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jtrangeo

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuters; Commuting; Mode choice; Public transit; Revealed preferences; Stated preferences; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01670481
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 29 2018 10:24AM