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This study investigates the behavior of multimodal and monomodal car users in school trips using one week travel information of 735 Iranian students between 7 and 9 years old. The authors develop a 2-level nested logit model and contribute to the literature of school trips by: (1) exploring socioeconomic and demographic factors explaining multimodality and monomodality, (2) understanding how and to what extent the parental attitudes, preferences, and concerns impact multimodality and monomodality, and (3) contrasting the multimodality behavior in school trips with other trip purposes discussed in transportation literature. The findings show that almost 13.6% of the sample was multimodal car users, 17.5% was monomodal car users, and the remainder of the sample was exclusive users of other transportation modes such as school bus and walking. The elasticity analysis demonstrates that a 1% increase in walking time to school, car ownership, and exercise rate changes the share of multimodal car use by -0.40%, -0.47%, and 0.05%, respectively. The results also indicate interventions such as providing contextual preconditions for walking facilities, increasing parental personal norms about reducing car use, and increasing the safety and security of walking routes could decrease monomodal car use and increase multimodal car use.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB10 Standing Committee on Transportation Safety Management.

18-06341

English

15p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Attitudes; Automobile travel; Behavior; Demographics; Logits; Parents; School trips; Socioeconomic factors; Trip purpose; Walking

Iran

Highways; Safety and Human Factors

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-06341

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 11:38AM