Do Employee Commuter Benefits Increase Transit Ridership? Evidence from the New York-New Jersey Region
Implementing effective travel demand management measures provides an opportunity to reduce transport dependence on the private car. There is growing acknowledgement that the strategy of implementing transit benefits may boost transit ridership and reduce personal vehicle use. However, these effects have received little attention in the literature so its impacts on travel behavior have hardly ever been quantified. This research contributes to the understanding of this issue by examining the relationship between commuter benefits and mode choice for commuting trips in the states of New York and New Jersey. Based on the Regional Household Travel Survey conducted by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council and North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, the authors adopted a multinomial logit model to identify the extent to which transport benefits to employees –including public transport-related, private transport-related and benefits for walking and cycling– promote changes in commuters´ modal split. The analysis shows that commuter benefits play a significant role in explaining observed travel patterns. This result confirms that promoting these types of measures is an effective policy to encourage the use of public transport modes, thus increasing efficiency and sustainability in daily mobility patterns
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP030 Standing Committee on Public Transportation Marketing and Fare Policy. Alternate title: Do Employee Commuter Benefits Increase Transit Ridership? Evidence from New York-New Jersey Region.
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Authors:
- Bueno, Paola Carolina
- Gomez, Juan
- Peters, Jonathan R
- Vassallo, Jose Manuel
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
- Date: 2017
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: 16p
- Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycling; Commuters; Employee benefits; Modal split; Ridership; Transit riders; Travel demand management; Walking
- Geographic Terms: New Jersey; New York (State)
- Subject Areas: Finance; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01623317
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 17-01123
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 24 2017 3:31PM