Adaptation Patterns to High Speed Rail Usage in China and Taiwan
Understanding the gradual changes in travel behavior over time is essential to comprehending the association between travelers’ adaptation process and travel demand. However, observing long-term travel behavior is generally difficult, details that triggered the changes might be missing via traditional cross sectional surveys. This paper proposes a different data collection methodology, which aims at analyzing the gradual changes of travel behavior. As a case study the authors focus on high speed rail (HSR) in Taiwan and China over the last 8 years. By developing graphical long-term usage patterns with detailed usage descriptions, changes and reasons to such usage were identified and the behavioral dynamics were captured from the overall sample. The results show that usage patterns can capture 98% of travelers’ usage patterns and disclose detailed information on different degrees of adaptation. The analysis further indicates that the adaptation process is influenced by a variety of factions including attitudinal factors, past experiences, and preferences that are generally difficult to take into account in modelling.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Standing Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values.
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Authors:
- Li, Yeun-Touh
- Schmöcker, Jan-Dirk
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
- Date: 2016
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 23p
- Monograph Title: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Attitudes; Case studies; Consumer preferences; Data collection; High speed rail; Travel behavior
- Geographic Terms: China; Taiwan
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Railroads;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01593350
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 16-3269
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 9 2016 3:58PM