Personal Repertoire of Travel Modes and Mode Change Potential

This paper presents research that concerns people’s personal repertoire of travel modes. The repertoire is studied from the viewpoint of how committed people are to using a certain travel mode or a combination of travel modes. Also the objective of the paper was to look into the reasons for, and background of, people’s choices. Based on the survey, respondents were profiled to five mover groups according to how committed they were to using certain travel modes. These groups were heavy car users (12%), car users (30%), regular customers of public transport (22%), people who prefer walking or cycling (14%), and people who mix all modes (22%). For any individual trip purpose that was studied about half of the respondents used only one travel mode. One third of the respondents had a dominant mode, but they used also other modes and one fifth had two or more equally common travel modes.

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• Authors:
  • Karasmaa, N
  • Voltti, V
• Conference:
  • Urban Transport XII. Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century
  • Location: Prague , Czech Republic
  • Date: 2006-7-12 to 2006-7-14
• Publication Date: 2006-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 53-59
• Monograph Title: Urban Transport XII. Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Choice models; Mode choice; Multimodal transportation; Public transit; Traffic models; Travel behavior; Travel surveys
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mobility management
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01037372
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1845641795
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 28 2006 11:31AM