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Travel modal choice analysis for traffic corridors based on decision-theoretic approaches

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The rapid development of multimodal transportation system prompts travellers to choose multiple transportation modes, such as private vehicles or taxi, transit (subways or buses), or park-and-ride combinations for urban trips. Traffic corridor is a major scenario that supports travellers to commute from suburban residential areas to central working areas. Studying their modal choice behaviour is receiving more and more interests. On one hand, it will guide the travellers to rationally choose their most economic and beneficial mode for urban trips. On the other hand, it will help traffic operators to make more appropriate policies to enhance the share of public transit in order to alleviate the traffic congestion and produce more economic and social benefits. To analyze the travel modal choice, a generalized cost model for three typical modes is first established to evaluate each different travel alternative. Then, random utility theory (RUT) and decision field theory (DFT) are introduced to describe the decision-making process how travellers make their mode choices. Further, some important factors that may influence the modal choice behaviour are discussed as well. To test the feasibility of the proposed model, a field test in Beijing was conducted to collect the real-time data and estimate the model parameters. The improvements in the test results and analysis show new advances in the development of travel mode choice on multimodal transportation networks.

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  1. Department of Automation, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Wei Guo  (郭伟), Yi Zhang  (张毅), Jia-xuan You  (尤佳轩), Jian-ming Hu  (胡坚明) & Xin Pei  (裴欣)

  2. Jiangsu Province Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern Urban Traffic Technologies, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Yi Zhang  (张毅), Jian-ming Hu  (胡坚明) & Xin Pei  (裴欣)

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Foundation item: Project(2012CB725405) supported in part by National Basic Research Program of China; Project(2014BAG03B01) supported by the National Science and Technology Support Program, China; Project(71301083) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; Project(20131089307) supported by the Project Supported by Tsinghua University, China

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Guo, W., Zhang, Y., You, Jx. et al. Travel modal choice analysis for traffic corridors based on decision-theoretic approaches. J. Cent. South Univ. 23, 3028–3039 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-016-3366-8

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