This document discusses mode choice models and discrete choice modeling. It begins by introducing the concept of an individual choosing among different transportation modes for a specific trip. The individual's choice set includes all available modes. Mode choice models aim to understand this decision in terms of observable factors. The document then discusses how discrete choice modeling formulates the individual's decision as choosing exactly one alternative from their choice set. It also introduces the concepts of systematic and idiosyncratic components of utility to represent observable and unobservable factors influencing choice. The document concludes by discussing binary choice probabilities and how they relate to the probability that a given mode maximizes an individual's utility.
Choice models are statistical models that attempt to capture the rational decision-making process by which individuals choose between options. There are several types of choice models including multinomial logit models, conditional fixed-effects logit models, alternative specific conditional (McFadden) models, ordered logit models, stereotype logistic models, and nested logit models. All choice models are estimated using maximum likelihood and allow the effects of independent variables to differ across outcome categories.
A presentation conducted by Sir John Armitt, CBE FREng FICE,
Presented on Wednesday the 13th of August, 2014.
Sir John Armitt CBE is currently Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, National Express Group, City and Guilds and is Deputy Chairman of the Berkeley Group.
Sir John is also a member of the Board of Transport for London and the Airports Commission, he is a Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
In September 2013 The Armitt Review Sir John’s independent review of long term infrastructure planning in the UK was published.
After leaving John Laing plc in 1993, where Sir John had been Chairman of Laing’s international and civil engineering divisions, he joined Union Railways, the company responsible for development of the high‐speed Channel Tunnel Rail Link, as Chief Executive. In 1997 he became Chief Executive of Costain, a position he held until 2001.
Sir John was Chief Executive of Railtrack plc from 2001 and Chief Executive of Network Rail from 2002 to 2007. He was Chairman of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council until March 2012.
Sir John was awarded the CBE in 1996 for his contribution to the rail industry and received a knighthood in the New Year Honours List 2012 for services to engineering and construction.
New Tools for Estimating Walking and Bicycling Demand
Track: Sustain
Format: 90 minute panel
Abstract: Walking and bicycling demand estimates can make a stronger case for investing in new facilities and are necessary inputs to important planning tasks. This session presents state-of-the-art tools to predict walking and bicycling demand at varying geographic scales. Tools include: 1) a framework to incorporate walking into regional travel demand models; 2) a method to estimate bicycle and pedestrian traffic based on count data; 3) new mode choice models; and 4) a web-based repository of non-motorized demand analysis tools.
Presenter(s)
Presenter: Patrick Singleton Portland State University
Co-Presenter: J. Richard (Rich) Kuzmyak Renaissance Planning Group
Co-Presenter: Greg Lindsey University of Minnesota, Humphrey School
Co-Presenter: Jeremy Raw Federal Highway Administration
Webinar: Modelling mode and route choices on public transport systemsBRTCoE
This document summarizes a study on modeling mode and route choices for public transportation systems. The study examined factors that influence travelers' choices in metro networks in Santiago and London, as well as a multimodal network in Santiago. It found that travelers consider various tangible factors like travel time, transfers, and comfort, as well as more subjective factors like network topology. The study developed choice models and found differences between those who consider common lines when choosing routes and those who do not. It concluded that public transportation modeling should account for a wide range of influences and individual strategies to better understand user behavior.
This document summarizes the key points made in a presentation about modeling transportation systems for an automated vehicle world. It discusses how autonomous vehicles could impact traffic flow by allowing closer vehicle spacing, potentially increasing road capacity. It also explores how autonomous vehicles may affect traveler choices and demand for different modes like transit or personal vehicles. New opportunities for real-time traffic control are presented. The document emphasizes that transportation models need to account for interactions between the supply of infrastructure and demand from travelers to adequately capture impacts of autonomous vehicles.
This document presents an ordered probability model for predicting outdoor thermal comfort distributions.
1) Data on air temperature, humidity, wind speed, radiation, metabolic rate, clothing values, and thermal sensation votes (TSVs) were collected from 1,549 subjects in a park in Tianjin, China.
2) An ordered probability model is developed using an auxiliary variable z that is a function of the thermal comfort stimuli and coefficients. Different values of z correspond to different TSV categories with probabilities calculated using the normal cumulative distribution function.
3) The coefficients and threshold values linking z to TSV categories were estimated using NLOGIT. Model predictions matched well with surveyed TSV distributions for a range of temperature conditions
The document discusses research into the relationship between ventilation and indoor/outdoor ozone concentration, noting that outdoor ozone enters buildings through infiltration, natural ventilation, and mechanical ventilation. The research aims to verify a simplified model for predicting indoor ozone levels based on outdoor levels and air exchange rates, and investigate using building ventilation strategies to mitigate indoor ozone exposure and related health impacts under different climate scenarios.
This document discusses mode choice models and discrete choice modeling. It begins by introducing the concept of an individual choosing among different transportation modes for a specific trip. The individual's choice set includes all available modes. Mode choice models aim to understand this decision in terms of observable factors. The document then discusses how discrete choice modeling formulates the individual's decision as choosing exactly one alternative from their choice set. It also introduces the concepts of systematic and idiosyncratic components of utility to represent observable and unobservable factors influencing choice. The document concludes by discussing binary choice probabilities and how they relate to the probability that a given mode maximizes an individual's utility.
Choice models are statistical models that attempt to capture the rational decision-making process by which individuals choose between options. There are several types of choice models including multinomial logit models, conditional fixed-effects logit models, alternative specific conditional (McFadden) models, ordered logit models, stereotype logistic models, and nested logit models. All choice models are estimated using maximum likelihood and allow the effects of independent variables to differ across outcome categories.
A presentation conducted by Sir John Armitt, CBE FREng FICE,
Presented on Wednesday the 13th of August, 2014.
Sir John Armitt CBE is currently Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, National Express Group, City and Guilds and is Deputy Chairman of the Berkeley Group.
Sir John is also a member of the Board of Transport for London and the Airports Commission, he is a Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
In September 2013 The Armitt Review Sir John’s independent review of long term infrastructure planning in the UK was published.
After leaving John Laing plc in 1993, where Sir John had been Chairman of Laing’s international and civil engineering divisions, he joined Union Railways, the company responsible for development of the high‐speed Channel Tunnel Rail Link, as Chief Executive. In 1997 he became Chief Executive of Costain, a position he held until 2001.
Sir John was Chief Executive of Railtrack plc from 2001 and Chief Executive of Network Rail from 2002 to 2007. He was Chairman of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council until March 2012.
Sir John was awarded the CBE in 1996 for his contribution to the rail industry and received a knighthood in the New Year Honours List 2012 for services to engineering and construction.
New Tools for Estimating Walking and Bicycling Demand
Track: Sustain
Format: 90 minute panel
Abstract: Walking and bicycling demand estimates can make a stronger case for investing in new facilities and are necessary inputs to important planning tasks. This session presents state-of-the-art tools to predict walking and bicycling demand at varying geographic scales. Tools include: 1) a framework to incorporate walking into regional travel demand models; 2) a method to estimate bicycle and pedestrian traffic based on count data; 3) new mode choice models; and 4) a web-based repository of non-motorized demand analysis tools.
Presenter(s)
Presenter: Patrick Singleton Portland State University
Co-Presenter: J. Richard (Rich) Kuzmyak Renaissance Planning Group
Co-Presenter: Greg Lindsey University of Minnesota, Humphrey School
Co-Presenter: Jeremy Raw Federal Highway Administration
Webinar: Modelling mode and route choices on public transport systemsBRTCoE
This document summarizes a study on modeling mode and route choices for public transportation systems. The study examined factors that influence travelers' choices in metro networks in Santiago and London, as well as a multimodal network in Santiago. It found that travelers consider various tangible factors like travel time, transfers, and comfort, as well as more subjective factors like network topology. The study developed choice models and found differences between those who consider common lines when choosing routes and those who do not. It concluded that public transportation modeling should account for a wide range of influences and individual strategies to better understand user behavior.
This document summarizes the key points made in a presentation about modeling transportation systems for an automated vehicle world. It discusses how autonomous vehicles could impact traffic flow by allowing closer vehicle spacing, potentially increasing road capacity. It also explores how autonomous vehicles may affect traveler choices and demand for different modes like transit or personal vehicles. New opportunities for real-time traffic control are presented. The document emphasizes that transportation models need to account for interactions between the supply of infrastructure and demand from travelers to adequately capture impacts of autonomous vehicles.
This document presents an ordered probability model for predicting outdoor thermal comfort distributions.
1) Data on air temperature, humidity, wind speed, radiation, metabolic rate, clothing values, and thermal sensation votes (TSVs) were collected from 1,549 subjects in a park in Tianjin, China.
2) An ordered probability model is developed using an auxiliary variable z that is a function of the thermal comfort stimuli and coefficients. Different values of z correspond to different TSV categories with probabilities calculated using the normal cumulative distribution function.
3) The coefficients and threshold values linking z to TSV categories were estimated using NLOGIT. Model predictions matched well with surveyed TSV distributions for a range of temperature conditions
The document discusses research into the relationship between ventilation and indoor/outdoor ozone concentration, noting that outdoor ozone enters buildings through infiltration, natural ventilation, and mechanical ventilation. The research aims to verify a simplified model for predicting indoor ozone levels based on outdoor levels and air exchange rates, and investigate using building ventilation strategies to mitigate indoor ozone exposure and related health impacts under different climate scenarios.
Modeling and Estimation of Core Losses for Doubly-fed Wound Rotor Induction M...agniprotim
This document discusses modeling core losses for a doubly-fed wound rotor induction machine. It presents a core loss model that considers the core loss resistance to be variable and dependent on rotor and stator frequencies. The model is represented by a modified equivalent circuit for the machine. Results show that by properly selecting stator and rotor frequencies for different rotor speeds, the total core loss can be restricted to the rated value over a rotor speed range of 0 to 1 per unit.
Norman Garrick compares street network design from pre-1950 and post-1950, factors that help determine the overall safety of safe pedestrian travel, and explains why it is so obvious that the pandemic of sprawl development is to blame for unsafe, poorly designed, disconnected neighborhoods. Studies prove that Street Network Design has an integral role in providing safe, pedestrian friendly,and highly accessible communities. We must re-think the suburban model in order to reform emergency response.
5-Modal Split & Traffic Assignment-( Transportation and Traffic Engineering D...Hossam Shafiq I
The document discusses modal split and traffic assignment in transportation planning. It defines modal split as the process of separating trips by travel mode, usually expressed as a percentage of total trips. Traffic assignment involves allocating trips between zones to routes in the transportation network. Common traffic assignment methods include all-or-nothing assignment, which assigns all trips to the shortest route, and capacity restraint, which considers road capacity. The document provides examples of calculating modal split using a utility function and performing all-or-nothing traffic assignment on a sample network.
These are some of the models in brand loyalty and consumer behaviour. The best part of this subject is that you can actually put a number to your imagination.
The document discusses modal split and trip distribution models in transportation planning. It describes the factors that influence mode choice such as trip characteristics, transportation facilities, and traveler attributes. Two main types of modal split models are discussed: trip-end models which are sensitive to short-term changes, and trip-interchange models which can incorporate long-term policy decisions. Trip distribution is the second stage of travel demand modeling and involves distributing trips from origins to destinations using methods like the growth factor model and gravity model.
Boosted Tree-based Multinomial Logit Model for Aggregated Market DataJay (Jianqiang) Wang
This document presents a boosted tree-based multinomial logit model for estimating aggregated market demand from mobile computer sales data. It discusses challenges in modeling high-dimensional choice data with interactions among attributes and price. The proposed model uses gradient boosted trees to flexibly estimate utility functions without specifying a functional form, allowing for varying coefficient and nonparametric specifications. The model is shown to outperform elastic net regularized estimation on Australian mobile computer sales data, with the nonparametric model achieving the best test set performance while capturing complex attribute interactions.
The document summarizes a study on applying ordinal logistic regression to analyze a proposed new integrated education plan takaful (Islamic insurance) product. The study used a questionnaire distributed to 410 respondents to collect data on demographics and preferences. Ordinal logistic regression and correlation analyses found high acceptance of the integrated plan among all income levels. The proposed plan combines multiple riders into one affordable plan.
This document contains slides from a lecture on public health given by Alasdair Cohen at UC Berkeley on October 17, 2016. The slides discuss various topics related to research quality including publication bias, p-hacking, negligent science, Cochrane reviews, transparent reporting, and the CONSORT checklist. The CONSORT checklist is explained in detail over several slides, outlining the key elements that should be reported in randomized controlled trials to improve transparency and replication.
The document defines and provides examples of proportions, ratios, odds, and rates as basic statistical measures. Proportions range from 0 to 1 and represent a part of a whole. Ratios have no upper limit and compare two quantities without including them in the same total. Odds in epidemiology are a ratio of probabilities or outcomes. Rates involve time in the denominator and represent a frequency over an interval.
Generalized Logistic Regression - by example (Anthony Kilili)Anthony Kilili
Generalized logit regression allows modeling of outcomes with more than two categories. It estimates logit equations to calculate the log odds of membership in each category compared to a reference category. The technique was demonstrated on a direct mail marketing example to predict prospects' response category (enroll and pay, enroll but not pay, or not respond) based on demographic variables. The model produced probabilities for each category that could identify the most responsive prospects to target for campaigns.
This is a presentation made for our Intro to Machine Learning class. As a result it focuses more on the use of logit regression as a classifier as opposed to statistical applications. Many of the slides are based on Stanford's Open Course in machine learning.
This document provides an overview of logistic regression, including:
- Logistic regression models the log-odds of an outcome as a linear combination of predictors.
- Maximum likelihood estimation is commonly used to estimate the coefficients by maximizing the log-likelihood.
- There are many implementation decisions regarding goals, data handling, and desired outputs that impact the appropriate modeling approach. Regularization is also an important consideration.
This document provides an overview of linear-chain conditional random fields (CRFs), including how they relate to logistic regression and how they can be used for tasks like part-of-speech tagging and speech disfluency detection. It explains that linear-chain CRFs are a type of log-linear model that uses a graph structure to represent relationships between input features and output labels. Feature functions in CRFs can capture dependencies between neighboring output labels. The document provides examples of how CRFs are trained and tested for sequence labeling tasks.
This document describes using logistic regression to analyze data on smoking, matches use, and lung cancer while adjusting for potential confounding. It presents sample data stratified by smoking and matches use, then develops a logistic regression model with smoking and matches as predictors. The model indicates smoking significantly increases lung cancer risk but matches use does not modify this relationship. The document concludes by noting logistic regression can simultaneously adjust for multiple variables and derive coefficient estimates using maximum likelihood.
This document presents a study on factors affecting attitudes towards using ride-sharing apps in Bangladesh. It discusses literature on perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), and attitude towards using (ATU) ride-sharing apps. Four research questions and objectives are proposed to examine the impact of PEOU and PU on ATU, and whether PU mediates the relationship between PEOU and ATU. Hypotheses are developed and a conceptual framework is presented. A survey was conducted with 237 respondents and data was analyzed using reliability testing, factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. The results found PEOU positively impacts PU, PU positively impacts ATU, and PU mediates the relationship between PEOU and
This presentation provides an overview of shared mobility, with an emphasis on our recent North American bikesharing study results from our 2014 Mineta Transportation Institute report.
The document summarizes NCHRP Report 770, which provides guidance on methods for estimating bicycle and pedestrian demand to support planning and project development. It identifies a need for more robust tools to model non-motorized transportation. The report develops and tests several new models using advanced data and techniques, including a tour-based mode choice model, an enhanced four-step model, and a GIS-based accessibility model. It is intended to help transportation planners better address questions about land use impacts, facility improvements, and multimodal accessibility.
Efforts to reduce the emissions from car travel have so far been hampered by a lack of specific information on car ownership and use. The Motoring and vehicle Ownership Trends in the UK (MOT) project seeks to address this by bringing together new sources of data to give a spatially and disaggregated diagnosis of car ownership and use in Great Britain and the associated energy demand and emissions.
Data from annual car M.O.T tests, made available by the Department for Transport, will be used as a platform upon which to develop and undertake a set of inter-linked modelling and analysis tasks using multiple sources of vehicle-specific and area-based data. Through this the project will develop the capability to understand spatial and temporal differences in car ownership and use, the determinants of those differences, and how levels may change over time and in response to various policy measures. The relationship between fuel use and emissions, and the demographic, economic, infrastructural and socio-cultural factors influencing these will also be tested.
Consequently, the MOT project has the potential to transform the way in which energy and emissions related to car use are quantified, understood and monitored to help refine future research and policy agendas and to inform transport and energy infrastructure planning.
www.its.leeds.ac.uk/research/featured-projects/mot
Modeling and Estimation of Core Losses for Doubly-fed Wound Rotor Induction M...agniprotim
This document discusses modeling core losses for a doubly-fed wound rotor induction machine. It presents a core loss model that considers the core loss resistance to be variable and dependent on rotor and stator frequencies. The model is represented by a modified equivalent circuit for the machine. Results show that by properly selecting stator and rotor frequencies for different rotor speeds, the total core loss can be restricted to the rated value over a rotor speed range of 0 to 1 per unit.
Norman Garrick compares street network design from pre-1950 and post-1950, factors that help determine the overall safety of safe pedestrian travel, and explains why it is so obvious that the pandemic of sprawl development is to blame for unsafe, poorly designed, disconnected neighborhoods. Studies prove that Street Network Design has an integral role in providing safe, pedestrian friendly,and highly accessible communities. We must re-think the suburban model in order to reform emergency response.
5-Modal Split & Traffic Assignment-( Transportation and Traffic Engineering D...Hossam Shafiq I
The document discusses modal split and traffic assignment in transportation planning. It defines modal split as the process of separating trips by travel mode, usually expressed as a percentage of total trips. Traffic assignment involves allocating trips between zones to routes in the transportation network. Common traffic assignment methods include all-or-nothing assignment, which assigns all trips to the shortest route, and capacity restraint, which considers road capacity. The document provides examples of calculating modal split using a utility function and performing all-or-nothing traffic assignment on a sample network.
These are some of the models in brand loyalty and consumer behaviour. The best part of this subject is that you can actually put a number to your imagination.
The document discusses modal split and trip distribution models in transportation planning. It describes the factors that influence mode choice such as trip characteristics, transportation facilities, and traveler attributes. Two main types of modal split models are discussed: trip-end models which are sensitive to short-term changes, and trip-interchange models which can incorporate long-term policy decisions. Trip distribution is the second stage of travel demand modeling and involves distributing trips from origins to destinations using methods like the growth factor model and gravity model.
Boosted Tree-based Multinomial Logit Model for Aggregated Market DataJay (Jianqiang) Wang
This document presents a boosted tree-based multinomial logit model for estimating aggregated market demand from mobile computer sales data. It discusses challenges in modeling high-dimensional choice data with interactions among attributes and price. The proposed model uses gradient boosted trees to flexibly estimate utility functions without specifying a functional form, allowing for varying coefficient and nonparametric specifications. The model is shown to outperform elastic net regularized estimation on Australian mobile computer sales data, with the nonparametric model achieving the best test set performance while capturing complex attribute interactions.
The document summarizes a study on applying ordinal logistic regression to analyze a proposed new integrated education plan takaful (Islamic insurance) product. The study used a questionnaire distributed to 410 respondents to collect data on demographics and preferences. Ordinal logistic regression and correlation analyses found high acceptance of the integrated plan among all income levels. The proposed plan combines multiple riders into one affordable plan.
This document contains slides from a lecture on public health given by Alasdair Cohen at UC Berkeley on October 17, 2016. The slides discuss various topics related to research quality including publication bias, p-hacking, negligent science, Cochrane reviews, transparent reporting, and the CONSORT checklist. The CONSORT checklist is explained in detail over several slides, outlining the key elements that should be reported in randomized controlled trials to improve transparency and replication.
The document defines and provides examples of proportions, ratios, odds, and rates as basic statistical measures. Proportions range from 0 to 1 and represent a part of a whole. Ratios have no upper limit and compare two quantities without including them in the same total. Odds in epidemiology are a ratio of probabilities or outcomes. Rates involve time in the denominator and represent a frequency over an interval.
Generalized Logistic Regression - by example (Anthony Kilili)Anthony Kilili
Generalized logit regression allows modeling of outcomes with more than two categories. It estimates logit equations to calculate the log odds of membership in each category compared to a reference category. The technique was demonstrated on a direct mail marketing example to predict prospects' response category (enroll and pay, enroll but not pay, or not respond) based on demographic variables. The model produced probabilities for each category that could identify the most responsive prospects to target for campaigns.
This is a presentation made for our Intro to Machine Learning class. As a result it focuses more on the use of logit regression as a classifier as opposed to statistical applications. Many of the slides are based on Stanford's Open Course in machine learning.
This document provides an overview of logistic regression, including:
- Logistic regression models the log-odds of an outcome as a linear combination of predictors.
- Maximum likelihood estimation is commonly used to estimate the coefficients by maximizing the log-likelihood.
- There are many implementation decisions regarding goals, data handling, and desired outputs that impact the appropriate modeling approach. Regularization is also an important consideration.
This document provides an overview of linear-chain conditional random fields (CRFs), including how they relate to logistic regression and how they can be used for tasks like part-of-speech tagging and speech disfluency detection. It explains that linear-chain CRFs are a type of log-linear model that uses a graph structure to represent relationships between input features and output labels. Feature functions in CRFs can capture dependencies between neighboring output labels. The document provides examples of how CRFs are trained and tested for sequence labeling tasks.
This document describes using logistic regression to analyze data on smoking, matches use, and lung cancer while adjusting for potential confounding. It presents sample data stratified by smoking and matches use, then develops a logistic regression model with smoking and matches as predictors. The model indicates smoking significantly increases lung cancer risk but matches use does not modify this relationship. The document concludes by noting logistic regression can simultaneously adjust for multiple variables and derive coefficient estimates using maximum likelihood.
This document presents a study on factors affecting attitudes towards using ride-sharing apps in Bangladesh. It discusses literature on perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), and attitude towards using (ATU) ride-sharing apps. Four research questions and objectives are proposed to examine the impact of PEOU and PU on ATU, and whether PU mediates the relationship between PEOU and ATU. Hypotheses are developed and a conceptual framework is presented. A survey was conducted with 237 respondents and data was analyzed using reliability testing, factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. The results found PEOU positively impacts PU, PU positively impacts ATU, and PU mediates the relationship between PEOU and
This presentation provides an overview of shared mobility, with an emphasis on our recent North American bikesharing study results from our 2014 Mineta Transportation Institute report.
The document summarizes NCHRP Report 770, which provides guidance on methods for estimating bicycle and pedestrian demand to support planning and project development. It identifies a need for more robust tools to model non-motorized transportation. The report develops and tests several new models using advanced data and techniques, including a tour-based mode choice model, an enhanced four-step model, and a GIS-based accessibility model. It is intended to help transportation planners better address questions about land use impacts, facility improvements, and multimodal accessibility.
Efforts to reduce the emissions from car travel have so far been hampered by a lack of specific information on car ownership and use. The Motoring and vehicle Ownership Trends in the UK (MOT) project seeks to address this by bringing together new sources of data to give a spatially and disaggregated diagnosis of car ownership and use in Great Britain and the associated energy demand and emissions.
Data from annual car M.O.T tests, made available by the Department for Transport, will be used as a platform upon which to develop and undertake a set of inter-linked modelling and analysis tasks using multiple sources of vehicle-specific and area-based data. Through this the project will develop the capability to understand spatial and temporal differences in car ownership and use, the determinants of those differences, and how levels may change over time and in response to various policy measures. The relationship between fuel use and emissions, and the demographic, economic, infrastructural and socio-cultural factors influencing these will also be tested.
Consequently, the MOT project has the potential to transform the way in which energy and emissions related to car use are quantified, understood and monitored to help refine future research and policy agendas and to inform transport and energy infrastructure planning.
www.its.leeds.ac.uk/research/featured-projects/mot
Presentation on Spot Speed Study Analysis for the course CE 454nazifa tabassum
This presentation describes the process of Spot Speed Study Analysis, how it can be performed and how the findings from such studies can help to improve road design in urban areas.
This document presents the results of a study on student perception of passenger safety on public buses. The study had two objectives: 1) to identify factors influencing bus driver performance related to passenger safety, and 2) to determine which bus facilities have the greatest impact on passenger safety.
The researchers administered a questionnaire to 15 students to collect data on their perceptions. For driver performance, students agreed that factors like alcohol testing, speed limits, training, and licenses were important. Regarding facilities, students strongly agreed that lighting, emergency exits, special seats, and CCTV promote safety. Based on the results, recommendations include additional driver training, counseling, incentives, and reasonable work shifts as well as improved facilities, CCTV, fire extingu
Presentation by Sanna Pampel, Research Student at the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), delivered as part of the Institute's seminar series.
www.its.leeds.ac.uk/people/s.pampel
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The document discusses measures that can be taken to influence a modal shift from private cars to public transport in order to reduce traffic congestion in a city. It recommends conducting a stated preference survey to understand factors that influence travel choices. It also suggests implementing policies to dissuade car use such as prioritizing public transit at traffic signals, improving reliability and travel times of public transport, and providing more real-time transit information for passengers. Safety improvements for pedestrians are also highlighted.
Issues in establishment of an advance cab in Islamabad Waseem Sajjad
This document outlines a study on establishing an advanced taxi (cab) system in Islamabad, Pakistan. It discusses the current issues with the city's taxi system, including outdated vehicles, lack of air conditioning or meters, and no unified app-based system. The study aims to determine how lack of awareness, issues with fare determination, and absence of legislation impact development of an advanced taxi system. It describes the research methodology, which includes questionnaires for 50 taxi drivers, and statistical analysis of responses regarding awareness levels, fare policies, and drivers' views on regulatory measures. Key findings indicate taxi drivers have low digital literacy and most feel Islamabad lacks an adequate cab management framework.
APTA 2014 - Evaluating the Impacts of Real-Time Transit Information on Bus Ri...Sean Barbeau
This research aims to evaluate the positive impacts of deploying OneBusAway, which is a suite of tools that provide real-time bus arrival information through mobile and web applications. OneBusAway was originally developed in Seattle as open source software, and this project conducts a small-scale deployment in Tampa, Florida on the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) bus system. In the spring of 2013, approximately 250 HART bus riders participated in a pilot program to evaluate the impacts of OneBusAway. Prior to the launch of OneBusAway, these riders completed a “before” web-based survey that included questions about travel behavior, such as frequency of transit travel, waiting times, and transfers, and attitudinal questions pertaining to safety and overall transit service. OneBusAway was then provided to half of the riders (the user group), and it was not given to the other half of riders (the control group). Three months later, both the user and control groups completed an “after” survey to assess their changes in behavior and attitudes due to OneBusAway. We present results from these surveys and accompanying statistical analyses to assess the impacts of this transit traveler information system on bus riders.
Environmental Impacts of Shared Mobility: Insights from North AmericaSusan Shaheen
This document summarizes research on the environmental impacts of shared mobility services in North America. It finds that carsharing reduces personal vehicle ownership, with estimates of 9-13 vehicles removed for each carsharing vehicle. Carsharing users drive less and bike and transit use increases. The growth of bikesharing systems worldwide and in the US is also summarized, with over 1 million public bikeshares now worldwide. Surveys find bikesharing users tend to be wealthier, more educated, younger and drive less as a result.
Pima County Travel Reduction Program Training: April 2015Leslie Blaser
The Pima Association of Governments (PAG) oversees the Travel Reduction Program to reduce traffic and improve air quality in Pima County. The program requires employers with 100+ employees to assign a Transportation Coordinator who completes annual reporting and distributes information to encourage alternative commuting. PAG's Sun Rideshare program provides resources like ride matching, transit routing assistance, and a guaranteed ride home program to support carpooling, biking, walking and public transit use among employees. Transportation Coordinators are responsible for completing required reports and surveys each year to support the program goals.
The document summarizes findings from Susan Shaheen's presentation at the 2015 CarSharing Association Annual Meeting. It discusses worldwide growth trends in carsharing membership and vehicles. An insurance study analyzed over 328,000 carsharing trips and found the average risk of a claim was 17 per 100 insured vehicle years. Finally, an electric vehicle carsharing study found that exposure to EVs through carsharing increased people's willingness to own one and recommend them to others.
The document summarizes a presentation given at the Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place 2014 conference about equitable bike share system design and evaluation. It introduces the four presenters and their backgrounds working on bike share systems in Chicago, Boston, and Denver. It then discusses Chicago's Divvy bike share system as a case study, covering their approaches to service area design through heat mapping and demographic analysis, station siting, and evaluating how well the system serves city residents.
This document outlines Md Sakoat Hossan's dissertation defense on impacts of user heterogeneity and attitudinal aspects on pricing valuation. The dissertation aims to address user heterogeneity by identifying attributes that influence value of time and reliability estimates, and incorporate attitudinal factors into choice modeling. Mixed logit models are developed to capture random variations in preferences, and factor analysis, attitudinal models, and cluster analysis are employed to analyze attitudinal data and segment road users.
The document discusses advanced road transportation systems and planning. It defines advanced road transportation as preparing to transfer humans, animals, or items from one place to another. It identifies important functions of transportation planning like identifying transportation components and models. Transportation planning aims to make systems more efficient, effective, and equitable while reducing negative environmental impacts. It discusses various transportation studies used in planning like traffic volume, speed, travel time, parking, and origin-destination studies. The data from these studies help with tasks like designing roads, controlling intersections, and forecasting traffic. The document concludes that integrating advanced technology into traffic management is important for handling increasing vehicle populations in cities and towns.
This document presents a new individual modeling process for more accurately estimating populations' capacity for making journeys by walking and cycling. The method uses spatial microsimulation to account for individual attributes like age, fitness level, and bicycle availability. It improves upon current methods like simple buffer zones that do not consider individual differences. The new approach provides a more detailed understanding of travel capabilities and potential for increasing active transportation.
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Embedded machine learning-based road conditions and driving behavior monitoringIJECEIAES
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2. Aakash Bagchi (104296114)
Introduction
Mode Choice modelling
◦ Third stage in 4-stage transport modelling
Data : Household travel survey
◦ Variable groups: Socio-economic, Level of Service, Demographic
Location: Windsor, ON
◦ High level of vehicle ownership (automotive capital of Canada)
◦ Spread out geographically
◦ No transit services to suburbs-Lasalle, Amherstberg, Lakeshore etc
Modelling technique: Multinomial Logit model
Software tool: NLOGIT5 (Student version)
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Source: www.bikehub.co.uk
Objective
From the given data,
find the variables
which have a
significant impact on
the choice of mode for
work-trips and analyse
the effect of the
variables
(positive/negative) on
the choice of each
mode using a discrete
choice method.
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Literature Review
[Ding et al., 2014 (Exploring the influence of built environment on tour-based commuter mode choice: A cross-classified
multilevel modeling approach)]
◦ Distance of home zone from the work location is significant and has a positive effect on auto
mode
◦ Employment density at work location and population density at home location both
significant, but employment density at work location more so
◦ Travel time has a negative impact on auto mode
◦ Highly mixed land-use living areas encourage the use of transit for work while mixed land use
at work location not significant
[Yong Le Loo et al., 2015 (Transport mode choice in South East Asia: Investigating the relationship between transport
users’ perception and travel behaviour in Johor Bahru, Malaysia)]
◦ Variables having a positive effect on public transport use were location of residence,
students studying in Singapore, education-trade and technical skills institution and
education-post secondary institution
◦ Variables having a negative impact were, gender-female, age(45-54), employed in Johor
Bahru and employed in Singapore
5. Aakash Bagchi (104296114)
Literature Review
[Owen A., 2013 (Modeling the commute mode share of transit using continuous accessibility to jobs)]
◦ Transit mode share was found to decrease with increase in household income, increase in
population of white, non-hispanics and vehicle ownership.
◦ Household size and education had a negative association with transit ridership.
[de Palma and D Rochat, 2000 (Mode choices for trips to work in Geneva: an empirical analysis)]
◦ Variables having a positive impact on number of auto trips: Number of years of commuting,
cross-border travel, duration of daily congestion, weather, female, size of the household,
children going to school, young people with age less than 30years
◦ Variables having a negative impact on number of auto trips: Travel time, travel cost, flexible
work hours, frequency of congestion, senior people with age more than 50 years, employed
in top management, education level
6. Aakash Bagchi (104296114)
Literature Review
[M El-Sayed El-Bany et al., 2014 (Policy sensitive mode choice analysis of Port-Said City, Egypt)]
◦ High income has a positive effect on car/taxi use
◦ Out of vehicle travel time has larger impact (negative) than in-vehicle travel time on auto use
[J Zhou, 2012 (Sustainable commute in a car-dominant city: Factors affecting alternative mode choices among university
students)]
◦ Possessing a discounted transit pass has a positive effect on alternative mode use
◦ Commute distance is positively related to carpool. Distance not significant for walking, biking
or transit modes
◦ Gender, education level and age significant and positive co-relation to alternate modes
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Hypothesis formulation – Data
exploration
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
0 1 2 3 4 5
Number of Vehicles & Mode Share
Walk/Bike
Transit
Auto
80
85
90
95
100
105
0 1 2 3 4 5
Number of Bicycles & Mode Share
Walk/Bike
Transit
Auto
75
80
85
90
95
100
105
1 2 3 4 5 6
Household size & Mode Share
Walk/Bike
Transit
Auto
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Hypothesis formulation – From
past research and given data
Household income
Trip distance
Gender-Female
Household size
Vehicles Ownership
Travel Cost
Travel time
Age 5
Age 6
Age 7
Travel Cost
Travel time
Household income
Trip distance
Gender-Female
Vehicle Ownership
Auto Transit
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Goodness of Fit of model
ρ2= 0.34
AT TR WB Total
AT 717 10 28 754
TR 10 1 1 12
WB 27 2 17 46
Total 754 12 46 812
Crosstab: Comparison of
actual and model results
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Simulation
Travel times for transit decreased by 50%, and that of auto increased by 25%
Travel cost for transit decreased by 10% and that of auto increased by 10%
Choice
Base Scenario Scenario - Base
% Number % Number % Number
AT 92.86 754 91.0 740 -1.85 -14
TR 1.48 12 3.4 25 1.93 13
WB 5.67 46 5.9 48 0.19 2
Total 100 812 100 813 0.27 1
Windsor:
Transit system last comprehensively revised in 1977.
Average 3% of transit trips (Windsor Area Long range Transportation Study)
Population of around 2M.
Ding et al.
employment density at the home zone is not statistically significant in the model
The distance of home zone from the work location is significant at a 95% CI in the traditional model and significant at 90% in the cross-classified multilevel probit model
It was found that having a highly mixed land-use living areas encourage the use of transit for work tours. While mixed land use at the work location did not have a significant impact on the mode choice
Employment density at the work location is more important than population density at the home location
As the travel time increases, the probability of choosing car/auto mode decreases.
Yong Le Loo et al. (2015)
Variables having a positive effect on public transport use were location of residence, students studying in Singapore, education-trade and technical skills institution and education-post secondary institution
Variables having a negative impact were gender, age(45-54), employed in Johor Bahru and employed in Singapore
Owen (2013) found that transit mode share was found to decrease with increase in household income, increase in population of white, non-hispanics and vehicle ownership. Unexpectedly, household size and education had a negative association with transit ridership.
Geneva
+ve auto: No of years of use, cross-border(france), duration of daily congestion, weather, females, size of the household, children going to school, young people (<30years)
-ve auto: Travel time, travel cost, flexible work hours, frequency of congestion, seniors (>50 years), top management, high education
Port Said, Egypt
(1) Income is the most important attribute affecting the mode choice behavior model. The higher income earners are more likely to use car than taxi or bus. This is reflected by the high values and positive signs of income parameters.
(2) Contrary to most cases in developed countries, out-ofvehicle time which represents the accessibility shows higher impacts than the in-vehicle time as a result of poor access facilities in developing countries.
(3) A positive raise in speed and time budget with the reduction in monetary travel cost caused by applying new policy.
LA
It shows that being multimodal and having a discounted transit pass increase the utility of alternative modes such as public transit, biking, walking, carpool and telecommuting while holding a parking permit reduces the utility of these modes
Commute distance probably has a mixed impact on the utility or odds of these modes. This study identifies that commute distance is positively related to carpool and telecommuting. It cannot confirm that commute distance and biking, walking and usage of public transit are signifi- cantly correlated
t gender, status (undergraduate vs. gradate) and age are significantly correlated to biking, walking or usage of public transit
Students living alone are more likely to commute by driving alone than other students