Built Environment, Trip Chaining, and Mode Choice: A Case Study for the New York Metropolitan Area

This paper investigates the role of the built environment in mode choice decisions for home-based work tours in the New York Metropolitan Region. The analysis is conducted using a multinomial logit model. There are two main results of this study. First, the built environment influences people’s mode choice decisions, even after controlling cost variables. Population and employment densities have explanatory power, so do the variables measuring the access distance between the nearest mass transportation facility and a stop in the tour. Second, tour characteristics do affect mode choices. Mode choice decisions shall be analyzed with tours as the analysis unit.

• Corporate Authors:

  World Conference on Transport Research Society

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• Authors:
  • Chen, Cynthia
  • Gong, Hongmian
  • Paaswell, Robert
• Conference:
  • 11th World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Berkeley CA, United States
  • Date: 2007-6-24 to 2007-6-28
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 40p
• Monograph Title: 11th World Conference on Transport Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Built environment; Employment; Mode choice; Multinomial logits; Population density; Public transit; Trip chaining
• Geographic Terms: New York (New York); New York Metropolitan Area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01124296
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 18 2009 1:32PM