Mamdoohi, Amir Reza and Janjany, Amir (2016) Modeling metro users' travel behavior in Tehran: Frequency of Use. TeMA Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment. pp. 47-58. ISSN 1970-9870
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Abstract
Transit-oriented development (TOD), as a sustainable supporting strategy, emphasizes the improvement of public transportation coverage and quality, land use density and diversity around public transportation stations and priority of walking and cycling at station areas. Traffic, environmental and economic problems arising from high growth of private cars, inappropriate distribution of land use, and car-orientation of the metropolitan area, necessitate adoption of TOD. In recent years, extensive research into urban development and transportation has focused on this strategy. This research in which metro stations are considered as a base for development, aims to model metro users' travel behavior and decision-making procedures. In this regard, the research question is: what are the parameters or factors affecting the frequency of travel by metro in a half-mile radius from stations. The radius was determined based on TOD definitions and five-minute walking time to metro stations. A questionnaire was designed in three sections that include travel features by metro, attitudes toward metro, and economic and social characteristics of respondents. Ten stations were selected based on their geographic dispersion in Tehran and a sample of 450 respondents was determined. The questionnaires were surveyed face to face in (half-mile) vicinity of metro stations. Based on a refined sample on 400 questionnaires ordered discrete choice models were considered. Results of descriptive statistics show that 38.5 percent of the sample used metro more than 4 times per week. Trip purpose for 45.7 percent of metro users is work. Access mode to the metro stations for nearly half of the users (47.6 percent) is bus. The results of ordered logit models show a number of significant variables including: habit of using the metro, waiting time in stations, trip purpose (working, shopping and recreation), personal car access mode to the metro station, walking access mode to the metro station and being a housewife.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Special issue 2016, Transit-Oriented Development in Iran: Challenges and Solutions |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Transit oriented development, Metro, Ordered logit model |
| Subjects: | 700 Arti, Belle arti e Arti decorative > 710 Urbanistica e paesistica > 711 Urbanistica (Pianificazione territoriale) (Classificare le opere d'insieme su Urbanistica e Architettura in 720; classificare le opere interdisciplinari sull'Urbanistica in 307.12) > 711.2 Pianificazione a livello internazionale e nazionale 700 Arti, Belle arti e Arti decorative > 710 Urbanistica e paesistica > 711 Urbanistica (Pianificazione territoriale) (Classificare le opere d'insieme su Urbanistica e Architettura in 720; classificare le opere interdisciplinari sull'Urbanistica in 307.12) > 711.7 Infrastrutture per i trasporti |
| Depositing User: | Rosa Anna La Rocca |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2016 09:26 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2016 09:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15492 |
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