The prevailing disparity in the availability and demand for medical services necessitates an in-depth analysis and projection of the travel behavior patterns of medical travelers. First, this paper screens and processes data on travel to healthcare facilities from the Fifth Tokyo Metropolitan Area Resident Travel Survey. Second, the preliminary descriptive statistics reflected that the medical and health travelers in this dataset are elderly individuals, from smaller households, exhibiting high travel frequency, with a pronounced preference for morning travel. This paper used multinomial logit model, decision tree and random forest model to predict travelers’ choices of public transportation, private transportation, non-motorized vehicles and walking in daily healthcare travel scenarios. The models demonstrate robust fit, achieving commendable predictive accuracies of 63.3%, 65.41%, and 65.54%, respectively.


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    Title :

    A Comparative Study of MNL and Machine Learning Methods for Travel Mode Choice of Medical Travel


    Additional title:

    Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering


    Contributors:
    Meng, Lingyun (editor) / Qian, Yongsheng (editor) / Bai, Yun (editor) / Lv, Bin (editor) / Tang, Yuanjie (editor) / Huang, Pengpeng (author) / Gong, Lei (author) / Lei, Tian (author) / Wang, Jia (author) / Zhu, Cheng (author)

    Conference:

    International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Studies ; 2024 ; Lanzhou, China August 23, 2024 - August 25, 2024



    Publication date :

    2024-11-14


    Size :

    9 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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