LOGIT MODE-CHOICE MODELS FOR NONWORK TRIPS

Most research on logit models of mode choice has concentrated on the work trip, a fact frequently commented on by critics for some years. With the increasingly widespread adoption of the logit model as the basic mode-choice model of practical transportation planning, more logit models for nonwork purposes are being installed in travel forecasting procedures. In this paper the form that most of these models take and the assumptions on which they are based are examined. It is shown that the majority of these are not calibrated, but are updated from the work models. The inappropriateness of this is demonstrated through selected case studies, and the types of models that can be built are described. It is shown that calibration of nonwork models is feasible and presents no new problems over the work mode-choice models, and that the relative weights of cost and time components in work models are different from those found for fully calibrated nonwork models. The data requirements and calibration needs are also discussed.

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• Authors:
  • Stopher, Peter R
  • Ohstrom, Eric G
  • Kaltenbach, Kenneth D
  • Clouse, Donald L
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 75-81
• Monograph Title: Travel measurement issues
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 987
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Forecasting; Logits; Mathematical models; Mode choice; Travel demand; Trip purpose; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Nonwork trips
• Old TRIS Terms: Modal selection
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00451167
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309037719
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Nov 30 1985 12:00AM