Route Choice Preferences of Public Transport Passengers in Different Cities

Abstract

In public transport network planning, it is essential to know the demands as well as the decision-making aspects of the passengers. A special timetable information and journey planning application has been developed and applied in 17 cities with different sizes and structures in North West Hungary since 2016 which is also able to collect and utilize the decisions of the users. Based on the collected real-life decision data, different logit models have been built for the different cities as well as for different age groups of the passengers. The examined variables are basically the time equivalents for transfers, walking and waiting phases of the journeys. This paper presents the main experiences of this project and the comparison of the decision models constructed so far. Results show clearly the differences between passenger layers of different cities and different ages in many cases, especially in larger cities where a higher amount of data is already available.

Keywords

• Public transport
• Passenger preferences
• Urbanization
• Route choice

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