COMMUTER MODE CHOICE IN DUBLIN

Socio-economic as well as journey characteristics were found to explain commuter mode choice behaviour in Dublin. City-wide choices were adequately modelled by the five variables: (a) excess time associated with the bus or train, (b) the walking time of the car mode, (c) the age of the choice commuter, (d) the demands of the home on the car and (e) whether the car is employer owned or not. The coefficients in this model were shown to be reasonably stable over time. A number of important recommendations are made on the methodological approach to modal choice models and planning generally. /Author/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper appears in "Urban Traffic Models", which is a publication containing the Proceedings of Seminar N of the Summer Annual Meeting at University of Warwick, England during July, 1975.
• Corporate Authors:

  Planning and Transport Res and Computation Co Ltd

  167 Oxford Street
  London W1R 1AH,   England 
• Authors:
  • MARKHAM, J
• Publication Date: 1975-7

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 273-294
• Serial:
  • Publication of: IRCOBI SECRETARIAT
  • Publisher: IRCOBI (International Research Council on the Biokinetics of Impacts)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuters; Mathematical models; Mode choice; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Modal selection
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00148103
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: P122
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 23 1981 12:00AM