The Across Latitudes and Cultures BRT Centre of Excellence is pleased to announce a monthly webinar series to share timely public transit research and encourage ongoing collaboration. The series is open to anyone and will address issues relevant to researchers and practitioners. Please share this announcement with your extended network.
The last webinar was:
Modelling Mode and Route Choices on Public Transport Systems
Presented by Sebastián Raveau, from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Eastern Standard Time (New York)
Register here
See summary, presentation and video below.
Please email Laurel at lpaget@uc.cl with any questions or future topic suggestions.
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Modelling Mode and Route Choices on Public Transport Systems
Understanding travellers’ behaviour is a key element in transportation planning, particularly when analysing travel decisions such as mode and route choices. In traditional transit assignment models, travellers are usually assumed to simply minimize travel time or consider a limited set of attributes. The purpose of this study is to expand our understanding of what travellers take into account when making travel decisions. The results show that a wide variety of attributes and characteristics are significant, such as: different time components, fare and income, transfer experience, train crowding, and network topology. Choice-set generation, path overlapping and common lines considerations are also analysed from a behavioural point of view.
