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Title:

TCRP H-37 Characteristics of Premium Transit Services That Affect Mode Choice: Key Findings and Results

Accession Number:

01519399

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This research seeks to improve the understanding of the full range of determinants for mode choice behavior and to offer practical solutions to practitioners on representing and distinguishing these characteristics in travel demand forecasting models. The principal findings are that awareness and consideration of transit services is significantly different than the perfect awareness and consideration of all modes which is an underlying assumption of mode choice and forecasting models. Furthermore, inclusion of non-traditional transit attributes and attitudes can maintain or improve the ability of mode choice models to predict the usage of premium transit modes while reducing the weight on modal constants that vary between transit sub-modes. Additional methods and analyses are necessary to bring these results into practice. This paper focuses on the key findings and results of the research of the value of non-traditional transit service attributes on modal choice, the influence of awareness and consideration of transit service on modal alternatives, and the importance of traveler attitudes on both awareness and consideration of transit and on the choice of transit or auto in mode choice. The models estimated to support these findings are described, but not in detail, due to the space limitations, but are available in the Transit Cooperative Research Program H-37A Final Report. The paper also documents the findings of the implementation testing, which concludes that including path choices and non-traditional transit service attributes in mode choice models can reduce the weight of the modal constants.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB40 Transportation Demand Forecasting.

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-4500

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Outwater, Maren L
Sana, Bhargava
Ferdous, Nazneen
Woodford, William
Bhat, Chandra R

ORCID 0000-0002-0715-8121

Sidharthan, Raghu
Pendyala, Ram
Hess, Stephane

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-4500

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 3:34PM