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Konstantinos G. Zografos Konstantinos N. Androutsopoulos Teemu Sihvola 《Transportation》2008,35(6):777-795
Flexible transport services include a wide range of demand responsive transport systems that provide non-conventional passenger
and freight transportation services. Several alternative business models varying according to the local market conditions,
the socio-economic, legal, and institutional framework may be developed for the provision of Flexible Transport Systems (FTS).
The objective of this paper is twofold: first to present an integrated methodological framework for developing and assessing
alternative FTS business models and second to demonstrate its applicability to a case study regarding the prioritization of
alternative FTS business models for the provision of flexible passenger transport services in Helsinki.
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Teemu SihvolaEmail: |
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The objective of this paper is to ease the planning of new toll projects by providing estimates of operating costs, and to
help us make better informed decisions about the design of toll collection systems. To do so we use panel data for Norwegian
toll companies to estimate average cost functions. The main results can be summarised as follows. We provide evidence of very
important unexploited economies of scale. The estimated cost curves are very steep for traffic levels below the sample mean,
and become almost entirely flat over a wide range above the sample mean. A higher share of vehicles using on board units will
significantly reduce average costs. Competitive tendering will significantly reduce average operating costs by as much as
25%. Our results also suggest that increased number of lanes, higher debt and passenger charging will increase average operating
costs whereas average operating costs are lower for toll cordons compared with other projects.
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Morten WeldeEmail: |
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This study introduces the concept of loss aversion to consumer behavioral intention at the personal psychological level to
develop an integrative structural equation model for analyzing traveler psychological decision making. In this model, the
relationship between behavioral intention and service quality is a non-smooth function based on the theory of loss aversion.
The expectation service quality in the SERVQUAL model proposed by Parasuraman, Zeithaml, and Berry (PZB) serves as a reference
point. This model can be applied to analyze the effect of non-smooth response of behavioral intention to service quality in
a traveler psychological decision-making process model. Intercity travel among cities in Taiwan is used as an empirical example.
Data were gathered in cities in Taiwan via a questionnaire survey, and the model was tested using path analysis performed
by LISREL. The empirical result shows that all causal relationships are statistically significant. Service quality loss influences
repurchase intention more than does Service quality gain. Finally, this study concludes by discussing managerial implications
and suggesting directions for future research.
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Jiun-Hung LinEmail: |
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Toshiyuki Yamamoto 《Transportation》2009,36(3):351-366
The interactions among different types of vehicle ownership including car, motorcycle and bicycle are examined by developing
simultaneous vehicle ownership models in this study. Large scale person trip survey data for Osaka metropolitan area, Japan
and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are used for empirical analysis. The results suggest that population density at residential area
significantly and negatively affects car ownership for both areas, and that the effects are larger for Osaka metropolitan
area than for Kuala Lumpur. Also, bicycle ownership becomes higher at higher population density area for Osaka area, while
higher at lower population density area for Kuala Lumpur, which represents the different usage patterns of bicycle between
the two areas.
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Toshiyuki YamamotoEmail: |
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This contribution presents theoretical considerations concerning the connections between life situation, lifestyle, choice
of residential location and travel behaviour, as well as empirical results of structural equation models. The analyses are
based on data resulting from a survey in seven study areas in the region of Cologne. The results indicate that lifestyles
influence mode choice, although slightly, even when life situation is controlled for. The influence of life situation on mode
choice exceeds the influence of lifestyle. The influence that lifestyle, and in part also life situation, has on mode choice
is primarily mediated by specific location attitudes and location decisions that influence mode choice, respectively. Here
objective spatial conditions as well as subjective location attitudes are important.
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Joachim ScheinerEmail: |
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Norlida Abdul Hamid 《Transportation》2009,36(3):295-307
A parking utilization survey was undertaken with the main objective of analyzing and comparing the daily workday utilization
patterns of two main park and ride stations within the Kuala Lumpur conurbation. This study also aimed to gauge the level
of usage of the park and ride facilities. The findings showed that the overall utilization pattern of the facilities was very
high with a utilization rate of between 80 and 95%. The stations, however, recorded a contrasting accumulation pattern. The
study further revealed that most of the rail-based suburban park and ride users were long term parkers. The results of this
study are comparable to results of similar studies in Seoul, Calgary, Tyne and Wear and others. Since parking availability
is an important factor that has influence on the behavior of a park and ride user, more accurate information relating to the
supply and demand of the park and ride facility will assist in planning new transport infrastructure.
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Norlida Abdul HamidEmail: |
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The rapid and continuing changes in travel and mobility needs in India over the last decade necessitates the development and
use of dynamic models for travel demand forecasting rather than cross-sectional models. In this context, this paper investigates
mode choice dynamics among workers in Chennai city, India over a period of five years (1999–2004). Dynamics in mode choice
is captured at four levels: exogenous variable change, state-dependence, changes in users’ sensitivity to attributes, and
unobserved error terms. The results show that the dynamic models provide a substantial improvement (of over 500 log-likelihood
points and ρ2 increases from 44% to 68%) over the cross-sectional model. The performance was compared using two illustrative policy scenarios
with important methodological and practical implications. The results indicate that cross-sectional models tend to provide
inflated estimates of potential improvement measures. Improving the Level of Service (LOS) alone will not produce the anticipated
benefits to transit agencies, as it fails to overcome the persistent inertia captured in the state-dependence factors. The
results and models have important applications in the context of growing motorization and congestion management in developing
countries.
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P. BhargaviEmail: |
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The ever-increasing use of cars is a big problem in metropolitan areas. To manage the traffic stream and alleviate air pollution,
most metropolitan governments are attempting to discourage the use of cars. Nevertheless, the results have not been satisfactory.
It is well known that normal-choice riders choose their travel mode based on utility, which is determined by mode-specific
impedances and individual characteristics. On the other hand, this study focuses on identifying car-dependent commuters who
tend to keep driving cars regardless of the circumstances they are confronted with. For this study, psychometric factors characterizing
car-dependent commuters were investigated. However, the performance of the mode-choice model was not sufficiently enhanced
despite incorporation of the psychometric factors. The performance improved considerably when the car-dependent commuters
were excluded. Based on psychometric factors, the support vector machine successfully separated the car-dependent commuters
from normal-choice riders.
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Keemin SohnEmail: |
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The influence of built environment to the trends in commuting journeys in the Netherlands 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
In this paper we describe commuting trends in the Netherlands in the past decade and examine the influence of urban form and
travel accessibility on commuting journeys over time on the basis of data from the Dutch National Travel Survey. Exploratory
analysis is performed to identify changes in commuting participation, departure time, commuting time, commuting distance and
the modal split. Regression analysis and choice models are used to examine the influence of the built environment on commuting
parameters over time. The results indicate that urban form has consistently influenced the parameters of commuting journey
in the Netherlands in the last 10 years. However, the trend of the influence is unique for each commuting model. Some influences
have become less significant in the last decade and some have become stronger.
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Kees MaatEmail: |
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Gerard de Jong Andrew Daly Marits Pieters Stephen Miller Ronald Plasmeijer Frank Hofman 《Transportation》2007,34(4):375-395
This paper provides a review of transport model applications that not only provide a central traffic forecast (or forecasts
for a few scenarios), but also quantify the uncertainty in the traffic forecasts in the form of a confidence interval or related
measures. Both uncertainty that results from using uncertain inputs (e.g. on income) and uncertainty in the model itself are
treated. The paper goes on to describe the methods used and the results obtained for a case study in quantifying uncertainty
in traffic forecasts in The Netherlands.
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Gerard de JongEmail: |
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Land use-transportation scenario planning: promise and reality 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Keith Bartholomew 《Transportation》2007,34(4):397-412
Land use-transportation scenario planning has become increasingly common in regional and sub-regional planning processes.
The technique promises to provide citizens with opportunities to engage in constructive dialogue about the future of their
communities, and to serve as a basis for assertive action to direct the course of that future. This study reviews 80 scenario
planning projects from more than 50 U.S. metropolitan areas. The analysis reveals important gaps in the practice of scenario
planning—particularly in the areas of public participation, methodology, and institutional structures—and recent efforts to
address the shortcomings.
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Keith BartholomewEmail: |
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Stated choice experiments have proven to be a powerful tool in eliciting preferences across a broad range of choice settings.
This paper outlines the elements of a group-based experiment designed for interdependent urban freight stakeholders, along
with the procedure to administer the questionnaire sequentially. The focus is on the design of a computer-assisted personal
survey instrument and the value in disseminating the details of a new approach to design and collect stated choice data for
interacting agents. The paper also discusses how to specify a reference alternative, and then how to recruit appropriate real-market
or representative decision-making group members to participate in a subsequent phase of the survey, which incorporates the
reference alternative and contextual information from an initial phase. The empirical strategy, set out in some detail, provides
a new framework within which to understand more fully the role that specific attributes, such as variable user charges, influencing
freight distribution chains might play, and who in the supply chain is affected by specific attributes in terms of willingness
to pay for the gains in distribution efficiency.
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Andrew CollinsEmail: |
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Traditionally, researchers studying transportation choice have used data either acquired from household surveys or broad,
region-wide aggregates. At the disaggregate level, researchers usually do not have access to important variables or observations.
This study investigates the potential usefulness of a proxy approach to modeling discrete choice vehicle ownership: substituting
narrow area-based aggregate proxies for missing micro-level explanatory variables by accessing large, publicly maintained
datasets. We use data from the 2000 Bay Area Travel Survey (BATS) and the contemporaneous U.S. Census file to compare three
models of vehicle ownership, drawing area-wide proxies from increasing levels of aggregation. The models with proxies are
compared with a parallel model that uses only survey data. The results indicate that the proxy models are preferred in terms
of model selection criteria, and predict vehicle ownership as well or better than the survey model. Parameter values produced
by the proxy method effectively approximate those returned by household survey models in terms of coefficient sign and significance,
particularly when the aggregate variables are representative of their household-level counterparts. The proxy model with the
narrowest level of aggregation achieved the best fit, coefficient precision, and percentage of correct prediction.
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Jeffrey WilliamsEmail: |
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Modeling residential sorting effects to understand the impact of the built environment on commute mode choice 总被引:5,自引:2,他引:3
Abdul Rawoof Pinjari Ram M. Pendyala Chandra R. Bhat Paul A. Waddell 《Transportation》2007,34(5):557-573
This paper presents an examination of the significance of residential sorting or self selection effects in understanding the
impacts of the built environment on travel choices. Land use and transportation system attributes are often treated as exogenous
variables in models of travel behavior. Such models ignore the potential self selection processes that may be at play wherein
households and individuals choose to locate in areas or built environments that are consistent with their lifestyle and transportation
preferences, attitudes, and values. In this paper, a simultaneous model of residential location choice and commute mode choice
that accounts for both observed and unobserved taste variations that may contribute to residential self selection is estimated
on a survey sample extracted from the 2000 San Francisco Bay Area household travel survey. Model results show that both observed
and unobserved residential self selection effects do exist; however, even after accounting for these effects, it is found
that built environment attributes can indeed significantly impact commute mode choice behavior. The paper concludes with a
discussion of the implications of the model findings for policy planning.
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Paul A. WaddellEmail: |
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Singapore motorisation restraint and its implications on travel behaviour and urban sustainability 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Piotr S. Olszewski 《Transportation》2007,34(3):319-335
The example of Singapore shows that rapid urban and economic growth does not have to bring traffic congestion and pollution.
Singapore has chosen to restrain car traffic demand due to its limited land supply. Transport policy based on balanced development
of road and transit infrastructure and restraint of traffic has been consistently implemented for the past 30 years. Combined
with land use planning, it resulted in a modern transport system, which is free from major congestion and provides users with
different travel alternatives. As the economic growth caused a substantial increase in demand for cars, several pricing policies
were introduced with the aim of restraining car ownership and usage. Growth of the vehicle population is now controlled and
potentially congested roads are subject to road pricing. These measures help to keep the roads free from major congestion,
maintain car share of work trips below 25% and keep the transport energy usage low. Although Singapore conditions are in many
aspects unique, its travel demand experience can provide useful lessons for other rapidly growing cities in Asia.
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Piotr S. OlszewskiEmail: |
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Analysis of household activity scheduling has to date been limited to one-day periods. This paper extends the study of household
task allocation to a one-week period. Using a one-week time use survey held under couples in The Netherlands in 2003, the
paper proposes indicators for measuring task allocation on a daily and weekly scale and investigates to what extent role expectations,
work status and indicators of time pressure influence task allocation patterns. The outcomes suggest that egalitarian role
expectations and higher female work status lead to a more balanced allocation of work and households tasks between spouses.
More traditional role views and increased time pressure lead to more specialisation and inequality between spouses. Interestingly,
households under time pressure apply day-to-day specialisation to arrive at balanced weekly allocation totals.
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Tanja van der LippeEmail: |
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Annual electric bike (e-bike) sales in China grew from 40,000 in 1998 to 10 million in 2005. This rapid transition from human-powered
bicycles, buses and gasoline-powered scooters to an all-electric vehicle/fuel technology system is special in the evolution
of transportation technology and, thus far, unique to China. We examine how and why e-bikes developed so quickly in China
with particular focus on the key technical, economic, and political factors involved. This case study provides important insights
to policy makers in China and abroad on how timely regulatory policy can change the purchase choice of millions and create
a new mode of transportation. These lessons are especially important to China as it embarks on a large-scale transition to
personal vehicles, but also to other countries seeking more sustainable forms of transportation.
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Christopher CherryEmail: |
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Using latent class cluster analysis, this paper investigates the spatial, social, demographic, and economic determinants of
immigrants’ joint distribution among travel time, mode choice, and departure time for work using the 2000 Census long form
data. Through a latent tree structure analysis, age, residential location, immigration stage, gender, personal income, and
race are found to be the primary determinants in the workplace commute decision-making process. By defining several relatively
homogeneous population segments, the likelihood of falling into each segment is found to differ across age groups and geography,
with different indicators affecting each group differentially. This analysis complements past studies that used regression
models to investigate socio-demographic indicators and their impact on travel behavior in two distinct ways: (a) analysis
is done by considering travel time, mode choice, and departure time for work simultaneously, and (b) heterogeneity in behavior
is accounted for using methods that identify different groups of behavior and then their determinants. Conclusively the method
here is richer than many other methods used to study the ethnically diverse population of California and shows the addition
of geographic location and latent segment identification to greatly improve our understanding of specific behaviors. It also
provides evidence that immigrants are as diverse as the non-immigrant population and transportation policies need to be defined
accordingly.
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Konstadinos G. GouliasEmail: |
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In auto-oriented communities, access to an automobile is essential for good mobility, but not everyone owns a car or is able
to drive. Little is known about how individuals in these circumstances might still use vehicles for transportation. To provide
insight on the nature of vehicle use by those with potentially limited vehicle access, we present qualitative findings from
focus groups with recent Mexican immigrants living in California, half of whom owned no cars. Our results demonstrate varying
degrees of participants’ access to vehicle travel not always corresponding to auto ownership, with extensive sharing of cars,
borrowing of cars, and getting rides. We describe the different dimensions of vehicle access that participants experienced
and identify specific factors that seemed to influence their access levels. We discuss the implications of our findings for
transportation policy and future research.
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Susan HandyEmail: |