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Understanding the gradual changes in travel behavior over time is essential to comprehending the association between travelers’ adaptation process and travel demand. However, observing long-term travel behavior is generally difficult, details that triggered the changes might be missing via traditional cross sectional surveys. This paper proposes a different data collection methodology, which aims at analyzing the gradual changes of travel behavior. As a case study the authors focus on high speed rail (HSR) in Taiwan and China over the last 8 years. By developing graphical long-term usage patterns with detailed usage descriptions, changes and reasons to such usage were identified and the behavioral dynamics were captured from the overall sample. The results show that usage patterns can capture 98% of travelers’ usage patterns and disclose detailed information on different degrees of adaptation. The analysis further indicates that the adaptation process is influenced by a variety of factions including attitudinal factors, past experiences, and preferences that are generally difficult to take into account in modelling.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADB10 Standing Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values.

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16-3269

English

23p

2016

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Attitudes; Case studies; Consumer preferences; Data collection; High speed rail; Travel behavior

China; Taiwan

Planning and Forecasting; Railroads

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-3269

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 12 2016 5:27PM