Built environment and Social Capital variables influences on travel behavior: the case of two waves panel survey in Madrid
Using Multi-days Data collected by a Smartphone panel survey, this paper explores the potential role of extrinsic characteristics of individual and collectives variables (i.e. social capital, street design and land use variables) on transport choice mode. A sample of 250 individuals, from four working centers (i.e. two health centers, Technical University of Madrid and the Faculty of Geography of the Complutense University) and living in Madrid Metropolitan Area (MMA) participated in a Smartphone two waves panel survey, entering travel data for an entire working week. A Mixed Logit model was estimated to analyze travel behavior after a fare increase and the extension of some metro stations. A first result shows that a generalized increase of public transport fare and the extension of Metro stations improve the significance of the income on the choice mode in favor of car-mode and marginally increases the use of Public Transport. Apart from the classical explanatory variables, such as income, travel time and cost, gender, and car ownership, the model incorporates directly built environment variables, and social capital variables, and panel effects correlations. Results clearly show that there are different combinations between explanatory variables (i.e. social capital and built environment variables) and data panel for explaining travel behavior. Therefore there is an overlapping between the use of multi-wave data and the incorporation of new variables related to social capital attributes and Built Environment. These new variables could improve the explanatory and forecasting capacity of travel behavior models even more than multi waves travel data.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Traveler Behavior and Values.
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Authors:
- Comendador, Julio
- Di Ciommo, Floridea
- López-Lambas, María Eugenia
- García Palomares, Juan Carlos
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
- Date: 2015
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 19p
- Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Built environment; Case studies; Logits; Mode choice; Panel studies; Social factors; Travel behavior
- Geographic Terms: Madrid (Spain)
- Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01551089
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 15-0386
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 27 2015 11:21AM