Exploring satisfaction of choice and captive bus riders: An impact asymmetry analysis

Fang, Dewei; Yang, Xue; Cao, Jason; Sun, Shan

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2021.102798

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“…The number of transfers for public transport, parking cost for private car, and access distance for car-sharing have negative effects on the preference for corresponding modes. This is consistent with the results of existing studies (Yan et al, 2019;Jin et al, 2020;Fang et al, 2021).…”

Section: Estimation Resultssupporting

confidence: 93%

Exploring the Role of Shared Mobility in Alleviating Private Car Dependence and On-Road Carbon Emissions in the Context of COVID-19

Zhang

Shao

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Shared mobility is becoming increasingly popular worldwide, and travelers show more complex choice preferences during the post-pandemic era. This study explored the role of shared mobility in the context of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by comparing the travel mode choice behavior with and without shared mobility. Considering the shared mobility services of ride-hailing, ride-sharing, car-sharing, and bike-sharing, the stated preference survey was designed, and the mixed logit model with panel data was applied. The results show that if shared mobility is absent, approximately 50% of motorized mobility users and 84.62% of bike-sharing adopters will switch to using private car and public transport, respectively. The perceived pandemic severity positively affects the usage of car-sharing and bike-sharing, while it negatively affects the ride-sharing usage. Under different pandemic severity levels, the average probabilities of private car choice with and without shared mobility are 38.70 and 57.77%, respectively; thus, shared mobility would alleviate the dependence on private car in post-pandemic future. It also helps to decrease the on-road carbon emissions when the pandemic severity is lower than 53. These findings suggest policymakers to maintain the shared mobility ridership and simultaneously contain the pandemic. Additionally, pricing discount and safety enhancement are more effective than reducing detour time to protect ride-sharing against COVID-19.

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Section: Estimation Resultssupporting

confidence: 93%

Exploring the Role of Shared Mobility in Alleviating Private Car Dependence and On-Road Carbon Emissions in the Context of COVID-19

Zhang

Shao

Wang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Distinctions can also be made based on demography (e.g., age and income) and disability (Beimborn et al, 2003;Brown, 2017;Krizek & El-Geneidy, 2007), and, in some cases, the characteristics of the urban environment at the residential location (Yang & Cherry, 2017). Additionally, differences have been found in the perception of transit service quality between captive and choice riders (Fang et al, 2021;Maitra et al, 2015). Fang et al, (2021) propose to focus on convenience and comfort to satisfy captive riders, and bus availability to satisfy choice riders.…”

Section: Captive Ridershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, differences have been found in the perception of transit service quality between captive and choice riders (Fang et al, 2021;Maitra et al, 2015). Fang et al, (2021) propose to focus on convenience and comfort to satisfy captive riders, and bus availability to satisfy choice riders.…”

Section: Captive Ridershipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Freeing the “Captive Rider”

Prayitno

Moos

2022

CPP-APC

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In recent years, public transit policy has often focused on chasing ‘choice’ riders, or those who have mode alternatives, while taking for granted ‘captive’ riders, or also referred to as transit dependents. This paper argues for a need to re-centre attention towards ‘captive’ riders through equity and sustainability perspectives, and to question the use of the term ‘captive’, as it alludes to marginalization. We conduct this research by examining the transit experiences of a sample of young captive riders in Don Valley Village and Crescent Town, two high-rise suburban neighbourhoods in the City of Toronto. Semi-structured interviews are used to gain insight into participants’ travel patterns and the challenges associated with public transit use. Participants accrue different types of costs with their experiences (i.e., time, money, safety, and comfort), which do limit their ability to participate in public life. The study is situated in the broader context of transit equity, which point to the need for service quality improvements for ‘captive’ riders. This study also shows why assessments of young captive riders’ experiences is essential for planning. Contrary to how captive riders are perceived, service quality issues prompted some of the study participants to switch to driving, which further questions the categorization of ‘choice’ and ‘captive’. Transit agencies are urged to consider further how to improve transit quality for ‘captive’ riders to contribute to equity but also to maintain transit loyalty among younger transit riders as their circumstances change.

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“…ird, this approach is effective on relatively small datasets [56]. Fang et al [61] explored service attributes' contribution to the satisfaction of 193 choice bus riders. Wu et al [62] used 360 observations to explore the relationship between built environment elements and CO 2 emissions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Fang et al [61] believes that variables with the relative importance less than 2% usually have little impact, and thus they are ignored in the analysis of impact asymmetry. From Table 4, we can conclude that the excluded attitudinal factors are shared-no- jam (1.34%), shared-safety (1.68%), and flexibility-propensity (0.63%) for the pre-COVID-19 car purchase intention, and are shared-no-parking (0.66%), shared-demand (1.36%), and variety-seeking (1.15%) for the post-COVID-19 intention change.…”

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Car Purchase Intention Modeling in the Context of COVID-19: An Integrated Analysis of Impact Range and Impact Asymmetry

Zhang

Shao

Wang

et al. 2022

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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The car purchase intention of noncar owners is closely related to the growth of car ownership and may be changed in the context of COVID-19. This paper aims to investigate the decision-making mechanism of the car purchase intention before COVID-19 and the change of car purchase intention after COVID-19. The contributions of influencing factors are derived from the gradient boosting decision tree model and the asymmetric effects of attitudinal factors are further analyzed based on the three-factor theory. The comprehensive importance hierarchies of the two dependent variables are constructed through the integrated analysis of impact range and impact asymmetry. The results show that people who were previously more willing to buy cars are more likely to increase their willingness to buy after COVID-19. The pre–COVID-19 car purchase intention is primarily determined by shared mobility-related attitudes, while attitudes toward private car use have a greater impact on the post–COVID-19 intention change. These two attitudes are mainly manifested as intention relievers and discouragers before COVID-19, but they are more likely transformed into intention strengtheners and encouragers after COVID-19. The availability of shared mobility has the maximum comprehensive importance to the post–COVID-19 intention change. Therefore, maintaining and promoting the ridership of shared mobility will be the most important prerequisite for alleviating the car purchase intention after COVID-19 pandemic.

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Exploring satisfaction of choice and captive bus riders: An impact asymmetry analysis

Cited by 36 publications

References 43 publications

Exploring the Role of Shared Mobility in Alleviating Private Car Dependence and On-Road Carbon Emissions in the Context of COVID-19

Exploring the Role of Shared Mobility in Alleviating Private Car Dependence and On-Road Carbon Emissions in the Context of COVID-19

Freeing the “Captive Rider”

Car Purchase Intention Modeling in the Context of COVID-19: An Integrated Analysis of Impact Range and Impact Asymmetry

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