Monetary cost, time cost, and mode choice: Transit and ridehailing in California

Recent studies explore how ridehailing competes with transit, documenting drops in transit ridership when ridehailing became available. However, few examine the extent to which ridehailing substitutes for other modes, such as walking or private automobiles. Using travel diary survey data and travel times and costs from the San Francisco Bay Area, the authors employ a mixed logit model to analyze how trip characteristics such as travel time and travel cost influence traveler’s mode choices. The results show that if ridehailing costs increase by 10%, ridehailing trips decrease by 6.97%. About half of the lost riders would switch to driving, and 20% to transit. Therefore, driving, rather than transit, is the closest substitute for ridehailing. Furthermore, 10% reductions in transit time and transit cost are associated with a 24.63% and 5.03% increase in transit trips, respectively, suggesting that reducing travel time is more effective in increasing transit ridership than lowering fares.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2024.104149
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920924001068
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  • © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Boarnet, Marlon G
  • Shao, Qifan
  • 0009-0001-6070-4910
  • Pilgram, Clemens A
• Publication Date: 2024-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 104149
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
  • Volume: 130
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1361-9209
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13619209

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Mode choice; Public transit; Ridership; Ridesourcing
• Geographic Terms: California; San Francisco Bay Area
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01914032
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 8 2024 9:14AM