Interrelations between travel mode choice and trip distance: trends in Germany 1976–2002

Optimal Intra-Urban Hierarchy of Activity Centers—A Minimized Household Travel Energy Consumption Approach

“…Liu et al [51] built a programming model of inhabitant trip distance distribution under the constraints of various utilities; they targeted information entropy maximization and validated the model using inhabitant trip survey data from Suzhou. The result shows similar advantageous trip distance for different types of transport mode with Scheiner's study [50]. Santos et al [52] summarized the factors that impacted the choice of transport mode, including social-economic and urban form factors, and tested them with a sample of 112 medium-sized European cities using a discrete choice modeling approach.…”

“…Miao and Zhao [49] illustrated this issue similarly. Scheiner [50] reported findings from longitudinal analyses of the German national travel survey KONTIV for the period 1976-2002, and suggested that once the availability of the car is held constant, the rationale behind people's choice of travel mode for a certain trip distance remained relatively stable. It is shown that the proportion of walking is extremely high for trips shorten than 1 km, and the proportion of automobile travel increases gradually for trips longer than 1 km.…”

“…About the bandwidth of kernel density analysis, some similar studies usually use k-order nearest-neighbor analysis to delimitate the bandwidth for each city [84,85]; however, the number of sample cities in our study is much larger, and it will be very difficult to carry out the k-order nearest-neighbor analysis for the 286 sample cities once at a time. We think 500-meter bandwidth is a good choice from a practical point of view: first, the upper limit for walking is usually 800 meters of path distance [50,53], approximately 500 meters of Euclidean distance in a grid city. Second, according to the Standard for Residential Planning published by the Ministry of housing, service radius of basic amenities at neighborhood level, such as bus stops, kindergartens, community centers, and grocery shops is also 800 meters of path distance.…”

Small aircraft as a means of transport in Spain

“…Furthermore, during the twentieth century, it has surpassed some modes of transport. The choice of a mode of transport depends mainly on the trip distance and the access to facilities within a certain distance (Scheiner, 2010;Trani et al, 2006;Wittmer and Laesser, 2009). In this regard, the use of the car is greatest in local situations, whereas air transport dominates over long distances (L'Hostis, 2009).…”

Analysis of Passengers’ Access and Egress Characteristics to the Train Station

“…It was found that when a household is within a walking distances, the probability of walking trips was increased [11]. It is vice versa for long distances travel in which the probability of using private cars were found to be increased [14]. Other finding also supported that the slow mode such as bike would also be less chosen for a larger distance trip [15].…”