Nature of influence of out‐of‐vehicle time‐related attributes on transit attractiveness: a random parameters logit model analysis |
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Authors: | Mohammad Shafayat Hossain John Douglas Hunt S C Wirasinghe |
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Institution: | Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
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Abstract: | This paper describes the nature of the impacts of walking distances and waiting time on transit use. The relative trade‐offs of walking and transfer components with other transit service attributes are also discussed. A total of 449 completed stated‐preference interviews were collected; with six observations from each respondent, the total number of observations was 2694. This data set was used to estimate the coefficients in different utility functions using a random parameters logit model. The results demonstrated that walking distances to and from transit stops have important and significant nonlinear negative influences on the attractiveness of transit. Transfer waiting time was also shown to have a significant nonlinear negative impact on transit attractiveness. The random parameters logit model had a better model fit than the standard logit model. Some of the findings obtained here are novel, while others are consistent with previous works. These findings have implications for both theory and practice. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Keywords: | out‐of‐vehicle time preference heterogeneity random parameters logit stated preference transit attractiveness waiting time walking distance |
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