Intercity Passenger Rail in the Context of Dynamic Travel Markets

This report develops an analytical framework or structural plan to improve understanding of how current or potential intercity travelers make the choice to travel by rail. This framework provides guidance for use by practitioners and decision makers considering alternative planning, operating, financing, service, and capital investment strategies for intercity passenger rail service in existing and potential travel markets; and it allows users to evaluate how mode choice is affected by a variety of changing and evolving parameters. The framework developed through this research is based on an examination of fundamental values, preferences, and attitudes affecting travel mode choice. Identification of relevant parameters extracted from this analysis served as input to a comprehensive survey used to gather necessary data for developing an Integrated Choice/Latent Variable (ICLV) forecasting model. Building directly on the results calculated in this forecasting model is the scenario testing tool, a series of interconnected spreadsheets which make available to the analyst a wide variety of data and procedures needed in the application of quick-turn-around scenario testing. Together, the ICLV forecasting model and scenario testing tool provide a sophisticated framework for analyzing intercity travel behavior.

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• Corporate Authors:

  RSG, Incorporated

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  AECOM

  New York, NY  United States 
• Authors:
  • Coogan, Matthew
  • Ajzen, Icek
  • Bhat, Chandra R
  • 0000-0002-0715-8121
  • Lee, Brian
  • Ryerson, Megan
  • Schwieterman, Joseph
• Publication Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 132p
• Serial:
  • NCRRP Report
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 2376-9165

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Choice models; Forecasting; Intercity travel; Mode choice; Passenger trains; Passengers; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01593960
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309375375
• Report/Paper Numbers: Project 03-02
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 21 2016 11:03AM