BEHAVIORAL MODAL SPLIT

The purpose of the authors, in the above methodological study, is to construct a model enabling a forecast to be made of the choice between the different forms of transport made by passengers, based on a certain number of data relating to the passenger himself and the form of transport. For this purpose, they make use of a theory known as the Lancaster theory, which considers the disutility of travel by a form of transport to be a function of certain attributes of the journey made (time and cost, for example). They carry out a critical examination of two models constructed on this basis, showing brief details of the questionaires covering the surveys undertaken for test purposes, in order finally to propose a third, more elaborate, model, which is said to have provided forecasts of which 90% have proved to be accurate, and which could be used to establish the improvements to be made to public transport.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Appeared as #402 in International Railway Documentation, No. 4, 1973.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems

  Box 4824, Duke Station
  Durham, NC  United States  27706
• Authors:
  • Bruce, A W
  • Isserman, A
• Publication Date: 1972-6

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 21 p.
• Serial:
  • High Speed Ground Transportation Journal
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue Number: 2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Modal split; Passengers; Travel demand
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00046974
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Railway Congress Association
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 14 1974 12:00AM