Do Travellers Strategize When Selecting Their Transit Stop?

This research aims to study the use of behavioral travel modeling approaches in transit users’ stop choice behavior. Several model structures like MNL, NL, Mixed MNL and Mixed NL are used for this purpose where stops are segmented based on travel schemes. Stop choice attributes considered in the modelling exercise include facility attributes, path attributes associated with each stop, correction factors to address the correlation between the paths and users’ socioeconomic factors. The data used in this research was taken from the household travel survey (HTS) of 2009 in Southeast Queensland (SEQ), Australia. This study shows that transit users use travel schemes like minimizing travel time and minimizing access time to choose their access stop. They even couple these schemes to access stops. It is shown in the study that path attributes along with some stop attributes affect the decision of transit users. Path attributes like walking time, number of transfers, travel time are considered jointly with stop attributes to examine their importance on decision about transit usage. The results show that the walking time needed to access the preferred stop is highly valued compared to the travel time or walking time in the path. Users seem to prefer choosing stops with more direct routes (minimum transfer) and/or more route options to reach the destination.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Standing Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting. Alternate title: Do Travelers Strategize When Selecting Their Transit Stop?
  • Corporate Authors:

    Transportation Research Board

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  • Authors:
    • Hassan, Mohammad Nurul
    • Rashidi, Taha Hossein
    • Waller, S Travis
    • Nassir, Neema
    • Hickman, Mark
  • Conference:
  • Date: 2016

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Digital/other
  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 16p
  • Monograph Title: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01593380
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: 16-4741
  • Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
  • Created Date: Mar 9 2016 4:06PM