The 71-mile Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System, serving San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and their suburbs, is the first regional-scale rapid transit system to open in the United States in over 50 years. The report analyzes the reasons underlying BART-bus and BART-automobile travel choices in the key transbay travel corridor linking San Francisco and Oakland. Travel modes are defined in terms of 14 service attributes including quantifiable attributes such as travel time and cost, and more difficult-to-quantify attributes such as dependability and safety. Disaggregate models which relate mode-choice probability to perceived satisfaction with the alternative modes are estimated using data for the 14 attributes collected by semantic differential scales. Several different models are estimated and compared for BART-bus and BART-auto choices, for work and nonwork trip purposes, for geographic stratifications of the data, and using linear and logit functional forms. The models provide convincing explanations of mode choice behavior and show that travel time and travel time-related attributes such as dependability and flexibility are the dominant determinants of choice.


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    Title :

    Explanatory Modeling of Transbay Travel Choice


    Contributors:
    H. Fan (author) / A. Sherret (author)

    Publication date :

    1977


    Size :

    130 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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