Valuing Travel Attributes of Rural Feeder Service to Bus Stop: Comparison of Different Logit Model Specifications

Search Strategy for Nested Logit Tree Structure: A Case Study of Rural Feeder Service to Bus Stop

“…The methodology includes collection of behavioral data from commuters, and development of utility equations using Nested logit model speci cations. e details of feeder service, design of survey instrument, collection of data and development of database have been reported by Das et al (2009). However, a brief outline of the same in the context of the present paper is given below.…”

“…Most widely known closed formed model, which relaxes restrictions of MNL model, is the nested logit (NL) model (Williams, 1977). Over the last few decades several works have been reported in the literature on theoretical improvement and application NL models for the empirical analysis of travel behavior (Manheim, 1973;Williams, 1977;McFadden, 1978;Hensher, 1998;Bliemer et al, 2009;Das et al, 2009;Dissanayake and Morikawa, 2010;Lee and Waddell, 2010;Siriwardena et al, 2012). e essential idea of the nested logit model is that alternatives can be arranged in a preference tree with similar alternatives in the same branch.…”

“…is paper demonstrates an experience of identifying the best feasible tree structure for NL model with reference to a case study of feeder service to bus stop in rural India. Das et al (2009) investigated the valuation of a ributes of rural feeder service with reference to a case study of about 200 square-km area in the state of West Bengal, India. e study area is bounded by National Highway (NH) in the Eastern side, Major District Roads (MDRs) in Northern and Western sides, and river Subarnarekha in the Southern side.…”

“…However, the roads within the study area are not served by any feeder system so far. e database developed by Das et al (2009) is used in the present work for demonstrating the experience of identifying the best feasible tree structure for NL model. It may be mentioned that Das et al (2009) also included a NL model while comparing the valuation of travel a ributes using di erent econometric model speci cations.…”

“…e database developed by Das et al (2009) is used in the present work for demonstrating the experience of identifying the best feasible tree structure for NL model. It may be mentioned that Das et al (2009) also included a NL model while comparing the valuation of travel a ributes using di erent econometric model speci cations. However, the work did not address in speci c the issues pertaining to identifying the best feasible tree structure for NL model, which is the focus of the present work.…”