An Assessment of Demand for Rural Intercity Transportation Services in a Changing Environment

Mattson, Jeremy W.; Peterson, Del; Ripplinger, David; Thoms, W E; Hough, Jill

doi:10.3141/2145-13

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“…The data shall be analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science Software (SPSS. 19), and the multinomial logit model for mode choice will develop to assess the relative importance of demographic, socio-economic and service attributes that influence travelers' choice behavior.…”

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“…It was concluded that the use of disaggregate, behavioral, stochastic models in a predictive framework is preferable to the aggregate approach because the predictions of disaggregate models are extremely promising. Subsequently, there were a large number of studies on disaggregate mode choice within the intercity context [5]- [19]. The studies contain probabilistic models which only focus on making a specific choice, once the traveler has decided to make a trip.…”

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Influencing Intercity Mode Choice Behavior in Libya

Miskeen¹

2012

IJIEE

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Libya is one of the rich developing countries out of oil revenues. The discovery of oil contributed to a dramatic change and a burden on all public utilities and facilities, especially the transportation system. Increased traffic congestion, road accidents on intercity highways, and environment pollution have been the negative impacts. The time is ripe for a policy to simultaneously improve intercity public transport and control car ownership. The current study is to identify trip-influential parameters and their countermeasures to shift travel modes. The shift may be caused by a reduction in airplane and intercity bus travel time and cost. The suitability of intercity mode choice models and travel reasons are to investigate. The collection of data is conducted through revealed and stated preference surveys handed out to intercity travelers between four major cities in Libya. Their demographic details are highly important. Based on such details, mode choice behavior and discrete choice models will be developed. The results are hoped to assist decision-makers on all levels to allocate resources wisely to public transportation improvement.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Influencing Intercity Mode Choice Behavior in Libya

Miskeen¹

2012

IJIEE

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“…On-time schedule has a positive significant impact on transit choice (Outwater et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2008) while Ahern and Tapley (2008) concluded that travel time with high reliability has no significant impact on travel mode choice. Moreover, other features of public transportation system such as travel costs, in-vehicle time, waiting time, egress and departure times, number of transfers and the possibility of seating affect the choice of people (Alberini, 2019;Mattson et al, 2010). Ben-Akiva and Morikawa (2002) found that different components of travel time including arrival time, waiting time, in-vehicle time and departure time have a significant effect on people's choices.…”

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Modal shift behavior of car users to light rail transit, some evidence from the field

Abbasi¹,

Mamdoohi²,

Arndt³

2023

ToTS

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Growing population and car dependency in developing countries have led to congestion that adversely affects the environment, travel time, trip cost, accidents, and public transportation reliability. Through implementation of travel demand management (TDM) policies, governments and policymakers aim to reduce private vehicle dependency and encourage people to use public transportation. Light rail transit is an important part of an attractive public transport. Rail transportation systems, though offer many potential benefits, are a major financial challenge for governments because of the high capital and operation costs. Therefore, passenger behavior must be determined before a new system is introduced. Using a stated preference (SP) questionnaire, private car users' behavior in Tehran's universities has been investigated to determine the explanatory factors affecting the modal shift to urban light rail transit (LRT). A binary logit model estimation results showed that men are less likely than women to shift toward LRT because they rely more on their private cars. It was the provision of free on-street parking at destinations and the frequency of using private cars on a weekly basis that had the most negative effect on LRT modal shift, demonstrating the critical role that implementation of TDM policies could play. Moreover, reduction in travel time by LRT has the most positive impact on modal shift toward LRT among private car users. As an interesting finding, marginal effect values indicate that a 10% reduction in travel time (0.32) has a greater impact than the possibility of sitting 50% of the travel time (0.25) on the likelihood of modal shift to LRT. Furthermore, the probability of modal shift to LRT will be reduced by 0.12 units for each unit increase in car ownership. In addition, owning a driver's license was also negatively correlated with LRT modal shift and decreased the likelihood by 0.27. This research will facilitate the decision-making and planning for future transportation systems to increase LRT's utility for potential users.

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“…Handy et al, 2010), attitudes and perceptions (e.g. Diana, 2010;Elias and Shiftan, 2012;Gatersleben and Appleton, 2007;Shiftan, 2008;Stradling, 2011) and familiarity and experience of the transport mode (Mattson et al, 2010;Stradling, 2011). Scherer (2010) and Scherer and Dziekan (2012) explored the reasons why travelers have a higher preference for rail transport in comparison to bus-system given a similar level of service.…”

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Knowledge of the concept Light Rail Transit: Exploring its relevance and identification of the determinants of various knowledge levels

Creemers

Tormans

Bellemans

et al. 2015

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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This paper explores the knowledge of the concept 'Light Rail Transit' (LRT) in the context of implementing a Light Rail system in a (sub)-urban region. To this end, three models are estimated: a first model to explore the role of knowledge on modal choice, a second one to identify the determinants of the level of knowledge and a third model to identify the determinants of a cognitive mismatch between actual (real) knowledge and perceived knowledge. The first model (a negative binomial regression model) underlines the significant relation between knowledge of the concept LRT and modal choice. Given the lack of knowledge of the concept 'Light Rail Transit' revealed by the descriptive results, it is of crucial importance to raise the level of knowledge. Knowledge acquisition can be based on transit experiences and information provision. To explore how information campaigns should be constructed and which target groups should be approached, the factors influencing travelers' knowledge and the determinants of a cognitive mismatch are identified by a Multinomial Logit Model (MNL-model) and a Binary Logit Model. The results show that various socio-economic variables as well as socio-psychological variables are significantly influencing actual knowledge and significantly influencing a cognitive mismatch. Among these variables, employment, gender, perception of ticket price of Public Transit (PT) and expectations with regard to seat availability in the LRT-vehicle are the most influential ones.

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An Assessment of Demand for Rural Intercity Transportation Services in a Changing Environment

Cited by 15 publications

References 23 publications

Influencing Intercity Mode Choice Behavior in Libya

Influencing Intercity Mode Choice Behavior in Libya

Modal shift behavior of car users to light rail transit, some evidence from the field

Knowledge of the concept Light Rail Transit: Exploring its relevance and identification of the determinants of various knowledge levels

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