A joint analysis of accessibility and household trip frequencies by travel mode
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Author(s)
Singh, Abhilash
Faghih Imani, Ahmadreza
Sivakumar, Aruna
Xi, Yang
Miller, Eric
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This paper examines the endogenous relationship between residential level of accessibility and household trip frequencies to tease out the direct and indirect effects of observed behavioural differences. We estimate a multivariate ordered probit model system, which allows dependence in both observed and unobserved factors, using data from the 2016 Transportation Tomorrow Survey (TTS), a household travel survey in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Area (GGH) in Toronto. The modelling framework is used to analyse the influence of exogenous variables on eight outcome variables of accessibility levels and trip frequencies by four modes (auto, transit, bicycle and walk), and to explore the nature of the relationships between them. The results confirm our hypothesis that not only does a strong correlation exist between the residential level of accessibility and household trip frequency, but there are also direct effects to be observed. The complementarity effect between auto accessibility and transit trips, and the substitution effect observed between transit accessibility and auto trips highlight the residential neighbourhood dissonance of transit riders. It shows that locations with better transit service are not necessarily locations where people who make more transit trips reside. Essentially, both jointness (due to error correlations) as well as directional effects observed between accessibility and trip frequencies of multiple modes offer strong support for the notion that accessibility and trip frequency by mode constitute a bundled choice and need to be considered as such.
Date Issued
2024-03-01
Date Acceptance
2024-02-09
Citation
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2024, 181
ISSN
0191-2607
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Volume
181
Copyright Statement
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
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Published
Article Number
104007