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Title:

Assessing the Effect of Transportation Demand Management Policies on Urban Long Car Trips

Accession Number:

01557872

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Transportation demand management (TDM), refers to an approach which tends to more efficient use of transportation resources of a society. Typically, car use reduction is said to be the main goal of this approach to avoid congestion problem. A part of daily car usage in cities is due to commuters’ long trips. It is a crucial issue to attract people out of their cars in long trips because of the high proportion of such trips in vehicle-kilometer traveled as a proxy of transportation emissions. This study focuses on managing the demand of long car trips which their destinations are in the central part of the city of Tehran. Therefore, three push policies (i.e., increasing fuel cost, increasing parking cost, and cordon pricing) and two pull policies (i.e., transit time reduction and transit access improvement) are investigated on 240 commuters whose workplaces are in the central part of the city and their driving distance is greater than 8 kilometers. Adopting an approach named multi-instrumentality, design of this study is enhanced by considering TDM policies’ interactions. By developing a behavioral mode choice model in form of multinomial logit, significant transportation related variables are discovered and interpreted, respectively. The application of model regarding to the effect of cordon pricing policy as well as packages of policies on car usage are presented. This study shows that cordon pricing is the most effective policy followed by increasing parking cost and increasing fuel cost policy.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Transportation Demand Forecasting.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-4466

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Habibian, Meeghat
Dibaj, Samira

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Appendices; Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Tehran (Iran)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-4466

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:28PM