Analysis of Mode Choice Decision and Choice Uncertainty Between Commuting and Non-commuting Trip Chains

The primary objective of this study is to compare the mode choice decisions between commuting and non-commuting trip chains and evaluate the uncertainties in the mode choice process. Based on the data obtained from a household survey in a medium-sized city in China, the travel activities in a whole day were classified into several types of trip chains. The multinomial logit (MNL) model was used to estimate the impacts of factors on the choices of trip modes which included walk, bike, public transit, and car. The entropy theory was brought in to evaluate the amount of uncertainty related to the mode choice decision for each traveler. The results showed that the mode choice decisions were quite different between commuting and non-commuting trip chains. The contributing factors and their impacts were found to be different between different chains. In commuting chains, the choice of car had the largest amount of uncertainty while the choice of public transit had the least uncertainty. In non-commuting chains, the bike choice had the largest uncertainty while the walk choice had the least uncertainty. Findings were discussed to help understand the decision process of mode choices between commuting and non-commuting trips.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries. Alternate title: Analysis of Mode Choice Decision and Choice Uncertainty Between Commuting and Noncommuting Trip Chains.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Li, Zhibin
  • Wang, Wei
  • Liu, Zhiyuan
  • Xu, Chengcheng
  • Wang, Yong
  • Guo, Yanyong
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuting; Decision making; Households; Medium sized cities; Mode choice; Multinomial logits; Travel; Travel surveys; Uncertainty
• Uncontrolled Terms: Nonwork trips
• Geographic Terms: China
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516662
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-2409
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 1 2014 6:12PM