The effects of travel time and cost savings on commuters’ decision to travel on public transport routes involving transfers

Chowdhury, Subeh; Ceder, Avishai; Schwalger, Bradley

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.01.009

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“…Copyright ⓒ 2016 SERSC The results support earlier findings which showed that travel time savings have a greater effect than cost savings on willingness (Chowdhury et al, 2015). For travel cost savings, it was seen from the data analysis that the k values for travel cost savings only (Item 2) and combined with travel time savings (Item 3) is similar for all current travel cost groups.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 86%

“…The merits of using JND are that the concept is based on perception and is able to quantify the perceived difference. Chowdhury et al, (2015) has shown that perceived attractiveness of a route with transfer can be assess using JND. Results of the study revealed that, on average, users' desire at least a 33% reduction in their current travel time and at least a 16% reduction in their current travel cost given basic comfort amenities at the interchange.…”

Section: Just Noticeable Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Car Users’ Willingness to Use Public Transport Routes Involving Transfers

Chowdhury¹,

Rajaobelison²,

Ceder³

2016

IJT

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Section: Resultssupporting

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Car Users’ Willingness to Use Public Transport Routes Involving Transfers

Chowdhury¹,

Rajaobelison²,

Ceder³

2016

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“…The survey sample was drawn from a diverse population of commuters travelling by urban bus and metro in the city of Madrid. In common with other researches [8,16], the survey was restricted to commuters due to their higher transfer rates [17]. This research considers commuters to be people who periodically and recurrently travel between their place of residence and their place of work or study.…”

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Stated preference survey for estimating passenger transfer penalties: design and application to Madrid

Jiménez

García-Martínez

Monzón

2017

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Introduction Transfers in multimodal urban trips imply a disutility for travellers, who perceive them as a penalty when using public transport. It is therefore important to estimate the utility associated to transfers and the main factors affecting it, to allow policymakers to reduce users' perceived disutility and enhance their intention to use public transport. The aim of this paper is to develop a Stated Preference experiment to estimate the penalty perceived by commuters (workers and students) when making transfers in multimodal urban trips. Method A web-based survey combining a Revealed Preferences and Stated Preferences survey was created using Ngene software, and an efficient design was applied to estimate multinomial logit models. We present here the first stage of the research: the design and results of the pilot survey of commuters travelling by metro or urban bus in the city of Madrid, Spain. Results The findings reveal a pure transfer penalty, independent of in-vehicle time, walking and waiting time and crowding. This pure penalty increases with the number of transfers. Crowded transfers cause a high disutility for commuters, which rises with the number of transfers in the total trip. Conclusions This paper highlights the importance of conducting a pilot survey when designing the final survey.Transfer penalties vary between cities, so pilot studies are encouraged to obtain more accurate results. Further research is needed to consolidate the pilot results with those of a final survey.

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“…As such, globally, government agencies are adapting their regional transportation planning process to prioritize and encourage the development and use of PT (Handy 2008). With trip making behavior growing in complexity in terms of purpose and spatial destinations, operators and planners continue to face the challenge of providing travelers with an attractive system (Hensher and Reyes 2000;Chowdhury et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%