Understanding the effects of transit benefits on employees’ travel behavior: 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. 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 (US). Based on individual data from 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. Benefit programs that pay for auto expenses (e.g. toll payments, mileage reimbursement, free parking) are negatively correlated with transit, biking, and walking, while employer-funded benefit programs for transit passes and bike reimbursements increase their respective mode shares. 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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- Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Bueno, Paola Carolina
- Gomez, Juan
- Peters, Jonathan R
- Vassallo, Jose Manuel
- Publication Date: 2017-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 1-13
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
- Volume: 99
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0965-8564
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bicycling; Commuters; Employee benefits; Mode choice; Multinomial logits; Public transit; Travel behavior; Travel demand management; Walking
- Uncontrolled Terms: Fare reimbursements
- Geographic Terms: New Jersey; New York (State)
- Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01635577
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 25 2017 1:56PM