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Focusing on paratransit policy making from social aspects, this study deals with the relationship of paratransit service supply and drivers’ life satisfaction. First, the multiple imputation method is applied to correct the bias caused by variables with missing values in the dataset, and then multiple unbiased datasets are obtained. Second, a structural equation model is used to clarify the cause-effect relationships of paratransit service supply and drivers’ life satisfaction based on multiple unbiased datasets in terms of social aspects. Third, the combined estimation results generally confirm the assumed cause-effect structure among “individual characteristics”, “paratransit operation”, “job choice reason” and “paratransit drivers’ life satisfaction”. Especially, “paratransit operation” most contributes “life satisfaction”, and then obviously followed by “individual characteristics” and “job choice reasons” with similar magnitudes. Finally, this study infers there are no “one size fits all” policies that are applicable to every driver. Policies focusing on different types of paratransit drivers from social aspects are provided to contribute the paratransit-adaptive public transportation system in developing countries.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP060 Paratransit.

01503729

14-2130

English

14p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Paratransit services; Policy making; Professional drivers; Quality of life; Social factors; Structural equation modeling; Transportation policy

Multiple imputation

Administration and Management; Policy; Public Transportation; Society; I10: Economics and Administration

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-2130

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 2:45PM