Exploring the effect of the built environment, weather condition and departure time of travel on mode choice decision for different travel purposes: evidence from Isfahan, Iran

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enayat Mirzaei ◽  
Reza Kheyroddin ◽  
Dominique Mignot
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Weather Condition ◽  
Departure Time ◽  
Choice Decision ◽  
Time Of Travel

scholarly journals Joint Analysis of the Commuting Departure Time and Travel Mode Choice: Role of the Built Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolei Ma ◽  
Jie Yang ◽  
Chuan Ding ◽  
Jianfeng Liu ◽  
Quan Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Public Transit ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Joint Analysis ◽  
Mobile Source ◽  
Travel Mode ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Travel Mode Choice ◽  
Departure Time

This paper aims to conduct an empirical study to evaluate the influence of built environment features and socioeconomic factors on commuters’ simultaneous choice of departure time and travel mode. Using Kunming, China, as the study region, the 2015 Regional Household Travel Survey and 2016 Point of Interest data are used in the analysis. The results show that, in addition to socioeconomic factors, built environment, such as the density of residential building, employment, and service facility are correlated with joint choice behavior. Moreover, there exist differences regarding the influence of built environment and socioeconomic factors on departure time and travel mode choice. The dissimilarity parameters show that commuters prefer to shift travel mode than departure time generally when travel condition alters. In order to examine the policy measures’ potential performance, the paper conducts simulation tests based on the Monte Carlo method. The simulation results show that congestion pricing of car travel during peak hours can reduce the number of commuting trips, and reducing travel time of public transit would be a better strategy to attract more passengers during peak hours. Moreover, reasonable land use planning, such as building more bus stops around commuters’ home location, would be a long term and fundamental approach to reduce mobile-source emissions and attract more public transit passengers.

scholarly journals An Empirical Analysis of Mode Choice Decision for Utilitarian and Hedonic Trips: Evidence from Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6896
Author(s):  
Enayat Mirzaei ◽  
Dominique Mignot
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Logistic Models ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Choice Modelling ◽  
Travel Mode ◽  
Travel Mode Choice ◽  
Choice Decision ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

A sizeable body of literature reveals a strong relationship between mode choice and health status. Therefore, society would benefit from travel if transportation and urban planners motivated more individuals to satisfy their desire for travel by active transportation rather than motorized transportation. Despite rich existing literature about the relations between the built environment and travel, we still need to address some research gaps in explaining travel mode choice. As a shortcoming, identifying and measuring the primary motivations for trips, and then incorporating such motivations into travel mode choice modelling, has received less attention in previous research. In this regard the current paper follows two main goals. It aims to differentiate between trips by determining the main utility of travelers and then analyzes the impact of the built environment measurements and subjective attributes on mode choice decision. Using data from a survey of 515 participants who reside in Isfahan, Iran, we conducted a series of binary logistic models to explore how the built environment influences mode choice decisions for different trips, controlling for socio-economics and subjective attributes. The results show that the number of hedonic trips were sizably more than utilitarian trips. It was found that travel mode choice for utilitarian and hedonic trips is influenced by travel habits and subjective attitudes, but the built environment also matters. Specifically, two built environment characteristics, including density and diversity, can substitute walking/cycling for driving for utilitarian trips. In addition, car use for hedonic trips is not influenced by built environment measurements. It seems that the utility and desire of hedonic driving depends on mode of travel. It is concluded that driving and walking/biking for hedonic and utilitarian trips are not single behaviors and differentiating between trips according to their main utility and considering both objective and subjective attributes helps urban and transportation planners prescribe appropriate spatial and nonspatial strategies to encourage walking/biking.

The Impact of Zoning and Built Environment Characteristics on Transit, Biking, and Walking

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-129
Author(s):  
Andrew G. Mueller ◽  
Daniel J. Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Land Use Regulation ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Impact

This study furthers existing research on the link between the built environment and travel behavior, particularly mode choice (auto, transit, biking, walking). While researchers have studied built environment characteristics and their impact on mode choice, none have attempted to measure the impact of zoning on travel behavior. By testing the impact of land use regulation in the form of zoning restrictions on travel behavior, this study expands the literature by incorporating an additional variable that can be changed through public policy action and may help cities promote sustainable real estate development goals. Using a unique, high-resolution travel survey dataset from Denver, Colorado, we develop a multinomial discrete choice model that addresses unobserved travel preferences by incorporating sociodemographic, built environment, and land use restriction variables. The results suggest that zoning can be tailored by cities to encourage reductions in auto usage, furthering sustainability goals in transportation.

A mixed Bayesian network for two-dimensional decision modeling of departure time and mode choice

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 1499-1522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Zhu ◽  
Xiqun Chen ◽  
Chenfeng Xiong ◽  
Lei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Network ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Decision Modeling ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Departure Time

scholarly journals Relationship between train users’ perceptions of walkability with access and egress mode choice

2018 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 02004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romeiza Syafriharti ◽  
B. Kombaitan ◽  
Iwan P. Kusumantoro ◽  
Ibnu Syabri
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
Vehicle Ownership ◽  
Control Variables ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Access Mode ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to understand whether there is a relationship between train users’ perceptions of walkability in built environment of trip origin with access mode choice and between train users’ perceptions of walkability in built environment of trip destination with egress mode choice. Train users are who ride from Cicalengka station Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia. To analyze the relationship is used crosstab method. The perceptual factors about walkability are those perceived by the train users consisting of walking distance, safety, comfort, and secure from crime, both in origin and destination of the built environment. The mode choice consist of walking, paratransit, motorcycle taxi, and own vehicles (or others for egress mode). To better understand the relationship is used several control variables, that are trip purposes, train usage, gender, and age. For access trip there is another control variable, that is vehicle ownership. Train users' perceptions of walkability have a relationship with both the access and the egress mode choice, except for the security aspect. The influence of control variables on the relationship between perceptions of walkability with access/egress mode choice varies for walking distance, safety, and comfort.

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