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Passengers’ choices in multimodal public transport systems : A study of revealed behaviour and measurement methods

Berggren, Ulrik LU (2021)
Abstract
The concept of individual choice is a fundamental aspect when explaining and anticipating behavioural interactions with, and responses to, static and dynamic travel conditions in public transport (PT) systems. However, the empirical rounding of existing models used for forecasting travel demand, which itself is a result of a multitude of individual choices, is often insufficient in terms of detail and accuracy. This thesis explores three aspects, or themes, of PT trips – waiting times, general door-to-door path preferences, with a special emphasis on access and egress trip legs, and service reliability – in order to increase knowledge about how PT passengers interact with PT systems. Using detailed spatiotemporal empirical data from a... (More)
The concept of individual choice is a fundamental aspect when explaining and anticipating behavioural interactions with, and responses to, static and dynamic travel conditions in public transport (PT) systems. However, the empirical rounding of existing models used for forecasting travel demand, which itself is a result of a multitude of individual choices, is often insufficient in terms of detail and accuracy. This thesis explores three aspects, or themes, of PT trips – waiting times, general door-to-door path preferences, with a special emphasis on access and egress trip legs, and service reliability – in order to increase knowledge about how PT passengers interact with PT systems. Using detailed spatiotemporal empirical data from a dedicated survey app and PT fare card transactions, possible cross-sectional relationships between travel conditions and waiting times are analysed, where degrees of mental effort are gauged by an information acquisition proxy. Preferences for complete door-todoor
paths are examined by estimation of full path choice models. Finally, longitudinal effects of changing service reliability are analysed using a biennial panel data approach. The constituent studies conclude that there are other
explanatory factors than headway that explain waiting times on first boarding stops of PT trips and that possession of knowledge of exact departure times reduces mean waiting times. However, this information factor is not evident
in full path choice, where time and effort-related preferences dominate with a consistent individual preference factor. Finally, a statistically significant on-average adaption to changing service reliability is individual-specific and
non-symmetrical depending on the direction of reliability change, where a relatively large portion of the affected individuals do not appear to respond to small-scale perturbations of reliability while others do, all other things
being equal. (Less)
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  • Docent Cats, Oded, TU Delft, The Netherlands.
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alternative title
Resenärers val i multimodala kollektivtrafiksystem : En studie av verkligt beteende och metoder att mäta detta
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Thesis
publication status
published
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keywords
Public transport, Travel behaviour, Revealed preferences, Travel survey
pages
159 pages
publisher
Department of Technology and Society, Lund University
defense location
Lecture Hall V:A, building V, John Ericssons väg 1, Faculty of Engineering LTH, Lund University, Lund.
defense date
2021-11-19 10:15:00
ISBN
978-91-8039-050-7
978-91-8039-049-1
language
English
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yes
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021e3491-b2ba-4f2b-9cfc-eb02f89d4da8
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2021-10-18 14:52:56
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2021-10-27 13:40:23
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  author       = {{Berggren, Ulrik}},
  isbn         = {{978-91-8039-050-7}},
  keywords     = {{Public transport; Travel behaviour; Revealed preferences; Travel survey}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{10}},
  publisher    = {{Department of Technology and Society, Lund University}},
  school       = {{Lund University}},
  title        = {{Passengers’ choices in multimodal public transport systems : A study of revealed behaviour and measurement methods}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/108039352/Ulrik_Berggren_web.pdf}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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