Tour Complexity and Transportation Demand Management: A Focus on CBD Work Tours

Since life is growing complex and time is a finite resource, propensity of people to link several trips with different purposes increases. The sequence of these linked trips that starts and ends at home including a work stop is defined as a work tour. The number of stops in a tour introduces an index which is called tour complexity. The analysis of tour complexity may lead to a better understanding of travel behavior and provide a more appropriate framework for examining various transportation policy issues. This study aims to assess the interaction between tour complexity and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) policies through analyzing the mode choice behavior of car commuters who regularly commute to their workplace in the center of the city of Tehran, Iran. The policies include cordon pricing, increasing parking cost, increasing fuel cost, transit time reduction, and transit access improvement. In this study, two different nested logit models which reflect the impacts of TDM policies on car commuters’ consideration of six modes of transportation are developed for 177 commuters with simple work tours and for 189 commuters with complex work tours. Results indicate that, cordon pricing followed by increasing parking cost in simple work tours as well as cordon pricing in complex work tours have the most impact on decreasing the probability of car usage. Furthermore, in response to single and multiple TDM policies, car commuters with simple tours choose alternative modes completely different to those alternatives car commuters with complex tours choose.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Standing Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Khaloei, Moein
  • Habibian, Meeghat
• 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: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuters; Logits; Modal shift; Mode choice; Travel demand management; Trip chaining
• Geographic Terms: Tehran (Iran)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01629650
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 17-06887
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 21 2017 9:14AM