Seamless, accessible travel: users’ views of the public transport journey and interchange

Influence of Socio-Demography and Operating Streetscape on Last-Mile Mode Choice

“…The common sense that distance has a steeper negative effect on the choice of walking and cycling as compared to motorized modes has been demonstrated in many studies (Debrezion et al 2009;Sohn and Shim 2010;Wardman and Tyler 2010). In addition to distance, research has been carried out on the characteristics of the first/last-mile trip stages with respect to time and facility attributes (Hine and Scott 2000;Kuby et al 2004;Guo and Wilson 2011). Kim et al (2007) found that full-time student status, high-income transit riders, trips made during the evening, and good security (low crime) at stations are significant factors associated with an increased share of walking for trips between home and light rail stations.…”

Route planning with transportation network maps: an eye-tracking study

“…This is further complicated by the fact that network transportation maps usually do not preserve metric relationships between stations and do not contain information about the frequency with which lines operate (Guo, 2011). It may therefore be faster to choose a longer route if that route has fewer transfers than the alternatives which require more transfers (Chowdhury & Ceder, 2013;Friman, 2010;Hine & Scott, 2000).…”

Interchange nodes between suburban and urban public transport: A case study of the Czech Republic

“…It is impor tant to mini mi ze the distan ce and time con nec ted chan ging bet ween trans port vehic les; quick and easy interc han ge is essen tial. Based on the results from thirty-two in-depth inter views con duc ted with pub lic trans port users in Scot land, seve ral fac tors asso cia ted with poor qua lity of interc han ges have been selec ted (Hine and Scott 2000). Com mon com plains rela te to poor quality of the wai ting envi ron ment, paying for toi let faci li ties and their poor stan dards, poor time tab les, per so nal secu rity, poor sig na ge wit hin the interc han ge node, and long distan ces bet ween dif fe rent interc han ge nodes.…”