Modeling transit user stop choice behavior: Do travelers strategize?

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Contributors

  • Mohammad Nurul Hassan - , University of New South Wales (Author)
  • Taha Hossein Rashidi - , University of New South Wales (Author)
  • S. Travis Waller - , University of New South Wales (Author)
  • Neema Nassir - , University of Queensland (Author)
  • Mark Hickman - , University of Queensland (Author)

Abstract

Transit choice research focuses predominantly on mode choice and route choice, whereas very few studies on stop choice are conducted. To fill this gap, this research aimed to study transit stop choice behavior with a focus on how people strategize when making their choices. It is hypothesized that travelers treat stops differently based on various schemes (strategies); minimizing travel time, access time, and the number of transfers are the schemes considered in this study, and the effectiveness of several discrete choice model specifications was examined. The study found that path attributes and stop attributes have significant impacts on stop selection behavior. Furthermore, users’ socioeconomic characteristics along with trip timing play important roles in choosing transit stops. The outcomes of this study could facilitate the recent move toward development of behavioral route choice models using smart card data, which can then assist travel demand estimation models with a focus on public transport.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)98-116
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of Public Transportation
Volume19
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-2939-2090/work/141543879

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals

Keywords

  • Mixed logit, Nested logit, Transit path choice, Transit stop choice, Travel scheme