Commuters’ Attitude Analysis of Feeder Public Transit Service: A Case Study

Abstract

Feeder public transit service (FPTS) plays a vital role in economic development for commuters’ access to the city centers. Attitude analysis of the mode or service is the process of achieving the decision to use mode or service under a set of circumstances. The commuters’ attitude of a particular mode or service affects the whole public transport system. The present study aims to analyze the attitudes of the commuters toward proposed FPTS in Maninagar to Naroda BRTS corridor of Ahmedabad city. The methodology consists of the bus stop and onboard survey using revealed and stated preferences survey data. The present study used binary logit models with explanatory variables including demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of individuals, trip/travel characteristics and feeder mode attributes. The prediction accuracy of the proposed model was 65.9%, which was greater than the proportion by chance accuracy criteria of 64.3%, indicating the model was a good fit. The findings from the study revealed that as monthly income and vehicle ownership increase, the preference for the acceptance of the proposed FPTS increases, while increasing the values of household size and travel distance will give preference to the rejection of the proposed FPTS. The observation also shows that an increase in the level of service variables such as travel time and travel cost causes the commuters to reject the proposed FPTS service so far. The findings of this research can be extremely useful to increase ridership of public transit by providing feeder service.