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In recent years, the interest of increasing share of walking in daily travel has risen. In this line, commuting to work has been identified as one of the opportunities to do more walking and thus transportation researchers have tried to find out how different factors affect walking behavior. However, a significant portion of the literature is made up of studies that have focused on forward trips from home to work (HTW) and less attention has been paid to the return trips from work to home (WTH). This study investigated and compared walking behaviors in both trips to/from work using a survey conducted in the city of Rasht, Iran in 2015. Separate behavioral choice models are developed for 1039 trips to/from work using a range of explanatory variables including travel, environmental, subjective (such as attitudes, perception), and individual/household variables. Results show that females are more likely to walk than males in both trips especially in return trips. Also, regardless of the trip direction, individual who has car availability in his/her household is less motivated to choose walking. Another significant factor in both models was individuals’ perception from home to work walk distance with negative effect. However, its effect was more pronounced in WTH trips than HTW trips. The final model suggests that having positive attitudes toward walking affect commuters’ walking behavior positively. However, this variable was only significant in trips back to home. Reasons for differences in walking behavior between HTW and WTH trips are discussed in details in the article.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Standing Committee on Pedestrians.

18-06563

English

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Behavior; Choice models; Logits; Walking; Work trips

Rasht (Iran)

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-06563

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 11:42AM