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A considerable shift has happened in mode choice and students’ escort decisions regarding the school trip around the world during the last decades. This shift of using more non-active modes has undesirable consequences including: physical inactivity among students, traffic jams during peak hours, and adverse environmental impacts. Hence, understanding the behavior of decision makers in regard to mode choice and escorting decisions is crucial for controlling this trend and promoting active modes of travel. This study is an effort to evaluate transportation mode choice decision and the way that students are accompanied by their parents to school, in a joined modeling structure as it is believed that these decisions are jointly made by parents. Two modeling formulations are used a nested logit model and a copula-based model. Results showed that the copula model outperforms the nested logit model. It was also found that modeling these two decisions in an independent way can mislead the policy assessment.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB10(6) School Transportation. Alternate title: Joint Model for Mode Choice and Escort Decisions in School Trips

01503729

14-2560

English

20p

2014

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Digital/other

References; Tables

Automobile travel; Environmental impacts; Health; Logits; Mode choice; Nonmotorized transportation; School trips

Copula-based models

Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-2560

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 27 2014 2:53PM