AN APPLICATION OF MODE-CHOICE METHODOLOGIES TO INFREQUENT COMMUTER - RAIL SERVICE

The feasibility of commuter-rail transit in the southwest Baltimore corridor was studied by a variety of passenger estimation methodologies. The methodologies selected were required to be applicable to the corridor scale, to be run manually, and to be capable of quick response. They were also required to be responsive to the addition of one or two trains per peak period, changes in station location and accessibility, and changes in costs such as parking charges and gasoline costs associated with the automobile. No one methodology met all of the above requirements. However, two methodologies were adapted to consideration of infrequent rail service (one or two trains per peak period) and applied to the corridor. The first methodology involved the application of a simple graphical technique that related modes split to station distance from the CBD; the second involved the application of a marginal utility model to corridor census tracts. The infrequent service capability was added, in the case of the graphical approach, by applying experience factors, and in the computational approach by relating automobile captivity to the number of trains per peak period. Both methodologies were transferable, without reestimation of coefficients, to the southwest Baltimore corridor. Both approaches could be applied manually in a person-week or less; the need for any greater sophistication than the graphical methodology is seriously questioned. /Author/

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• Authors:
  • Kingham, R I
• Publication Date: 1976

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• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 30-36
• Monograph Title: Passenger travel demand forecasting
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 610
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Automobiles; Central business districts; Commuter service; Costs; Gasoline; Graphics; Mathematical models; Modal split; Mode choice; Passenger counting; Passengers; Pay parking; Railroad commuter service; Travel demand
• Uncontrolled Terms: Graphical analysis; Models; Parking costs
• Geographic Terms: Baltimore (Maryland)
• Old TRIS Terms: Analytical techniques; Modal selection
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00157826
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309025850
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 28 1981 12:00AM