Development of Transportation Mode-Change Model to Bus System for Elderly People Incorporating Generalized Time

Nitta, Yasutsugu; Do, Gunseop; Mori, Yasuo

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“…Ibrahim and McGoldrick (2003) reported that, for older shoppers, the attributes "absence of waiting time" and "shortness of walking distance" are of particular importance where shoppers have a choice between private and public transport options. Nitta (1998) further showed that public transport becomes signi cantly less attractive to older people when they have to transfer between vehicles or routes to complete a single journey.…”

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“…Because the literature shows that older people associate a very high cost with having to change buses (Nitta 1998) we further analyzed how many bus stops outside each subject's own postcode district can be reached directly without transfers as a proxy for bus service quality. However, no correlation between this variable and higher bus usage was found, so that variable was dropped in the analysis described below.…”

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Mode Choice of Older People Before and After Shopping: A Study with London Data

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Schmöcker

Bell

2009

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With the population aging in many countries, the travel habits of older people are receiving more attention in the transportation literature. However, our understanding of factors in uencing their mode choices is still limited. is research focuses on mode choice for shopping trips, as these are the most frequent trips of older people. e study is not limited to trips to retail locations, but investigates the combined mode choice of trips to and from shops in order to understand which factors in uence mode changes. Two types of models, multinomial logit (MNL) and nested logit (NL), are tted to data from the London Area Travel Survey. e nesting structure is used to test the correlation in mode choice before and a er shopping. A particular focus of the models is on the importance of accessibility variables such as bus and rail stop density and service quality for speci c areas of London. e results show that mode choice combinations such as "walk to shop and take the bus back" are not as frequent as sometimes thought, and that bus stop density is more important to older people than attributes describing the quality of bus service, such as service frequency.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%