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Title:

A Comprehensive Model to Capture the Preference for Mass Rapid Transit in Dhaka

Accession Number:

01372714

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh and the home of 15 million people, is subjected to acute traffic congestion on a regular basis resulting in lost productivity, fuel wastage, commuter frustration and environmental degradation. The city is perhaps the only megacity with no well organized public transport system and one of the very few ones without Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), which has prompted the Government to launch new MRT systems like Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Metro on an emergency basis. Planning of these new systems warrants comprehensive mode choice models that can help in quantifying the relative importance of attributes, determining the Value of Time (VOT) for cost-benefit analysis, predicting ridership, etc. The existing models, however, do not account for the deficiencies of existing data like missing choice sets, measurement errors in the level of service (LOS) data, lack of information regarding the new modes etc. and can lead to incorrect travel demand predictions. These deficiencies have prompted the current research where Stated Preference (SP) data has been collected to capture the preference for proposed new alternatives (MRT), methodologies have been developed to address the limitations (e.g. missing choice-set and network derived travel attributes) of the existing Revealed Preference (RP) data, and a comprehensive mode choice model has been developed combining RP and SP data. The methodologies proposed in the current research can be useful tool for transport related analysis in other developing countries facing similar data issues.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE90 Transportation in the Developing Countries

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-3222

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Enam, Annesha
Choudhury, Charisma F

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Dhaka (Bangladesh)

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-3222

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:15PM