The Analysis of the Factors Determining the Choice of Park and Ride Facility Using a Multinomial Logit Model

The basic function of the Park and Ride (P&R) facility is to allow users to leave their vehicle on the outskirts of the city and to continue their journey to the city center using means of public transport, e.g., bus, tram, trolleybus, subway, train, or bike. In the first part of the paper, an analysis of the selected factors related to the functioning of P&R facilities in Warsaw (Poland) was performed. The main purpose of this paper was to identify and quantify the influence factors determining the choice of P&R facility during a journey. This analysis was performed for three hypothetical journey scenarios. A list of potential factors determining the choice of P&R facility during travel was compiled after conducting previous research in this area and studying the worldwide scientific literature on the subject. The structural parameters of the multinomial logit model were estimated based on the data from the survey conducted in Warsaw. The results of the analyses indicate that the decision to choose a hypothetical journey scenario depends on many factors, but primarily on the level of education, the number of years of having a driving license, age, the number of kilometers traveled during the year, and the performed activity.

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Modelling parking behaviour considering heterogeneity

Libro de Actas CIT2016. XII Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte ◽

10.4995/cit2016.2016.4071 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Gonzalo Antolin San Martin ◽

Ángel Ibeas Portilla ◽

Borja Alonso Oreña ◽

Luigi Dell´Olio

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Transport ◽

Logit Model ◽

Stated Preference ◽

Multinomial Logit Model ◽

Multinomial Logit ◽

Stated Preference Survey ◽

Transport Efficiency ◽

The City ◽

Made In

Most of motorized trips in cities of middle and small size are made in public transport and mainly in private vehicle, this has caused a saturation in parking systems of the cities, causing important problems to society, one of the most important problems is high occupancy of public space by parking systems. Thus, is required the estimation of models that reproduce users’ behaviour when they are choosing for parking in cities, to carry out transport policies to improve transport efficiency and parking systems in the cities. The aim of this paper is the specification and estimation of models that simulate users’ behaviour when they are choosing among alternatives of parking that there are in the city: free on street parking, paid on street parking, paid on underground parking and Park and Ride (now there isn´t). For this purpose, is proposed a multinomial logit model that consider systematic and random variations in tastes. Data of users’ behaviour from the different alternatives of parking have been obtained with a stated preference surveys campaign which have been done in May 2015 in the principal parking zones of the city of Santander. In this paper, we provide a number of improvements to previously developed methodologies because of we consider much more realism to create the scenarios stated preference survey, obtaining better adjustments.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.4071

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Analysis of factors determining the reaction to a legal problem using a multinomial logit model

Wiadomości Statystyczne. The Polish Statistician ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.0615 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

pp. 57-76

Author(s):

Waldemar Florczak ◽

Wojciech Grabowski

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Low Income ◽

Logit Model ◽

Structural Parameters ◽

Multinomial Logit Model ◽

Multinomial Logit ◽

Public Affairs ◽

Legal Problem ◽

Research Outcomes ◽

Important Barrier

The aim of the study is to identify and quantify the influence of factors determining the reaction to the occurrence of a legal problem. On the basis of literature review, a list of such factors was prepared and, subsequently, on the basis of data from the national survey conducted by the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) in Warsaw in 2012, structural parameters of the multinomial logit model were estimated. The research presents that a decision on the legal problem depends primarily on the type of experienced issue, its importance, attitudes towards law and several other socio-economic features which influenced people. Moreover, the research outcomes show that reductions in demand for legal counselling caused by the low income are not significant, whereas, spatial availability appears to be a more important barrier.

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