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This manuscript qualifies and quantifies factors affecting or correlated to university students’ mode choice in college towns, based on existing studies/evidences and a case study. It also examines how those factors’ impact vary between college towns and urban universities. It shows that specific bundled “services” (e.g., a cheap home and bus line proximity) are popular among students who use alternative modes of travel other than driving alone. This means that travel demand management (TDM) programs targeting commuter students would be most effective if they identify and provide such “services”. Commute distance is not found to be correlated to biking. Most commuter students of an alternative mode of travel prefer a residence that shares a similar level of transit proximity. Thus the effectiveness of TDM about biking and walking could hinge on availability and accessibility of transit services. It argues that more case studies are needed to validate and enrich the knowledge about students’ travel behaviors and related TDM programs across universities.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE50 Standing Committee on Transportation Demand Management.

01618707

17-01288

English

34p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Accessibility; Bicycling; College students; Commuting; Mode choice; Public transit; Towns; Travel demand management; Universities and colleges; Walking

Determinants

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-01288

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 10:24AM