Lecture: Travel Preferences of Multimodal Transport Systems

Updated:2020-11-25

Travel Preferences of Multimodal Transport Systems


Schedule2020.11.26  14:00—15:00


Reporter: Feixiong Liao

Metropolises in emerging markets are facing serious urban transportchallenges. Understanding people’s travel preferences is crucial for designingeffective sustainable urban policies. This talk discusses the study of travelpreferences in the metropolitan area of Beijing, which is notoriously plaguedwith high degrees of congestion. This study includes a series of interwovenstated preference experiments on travel behavior with a semi-random sample of2652 respondents participated in the experiments. The results, estimated by ascaled mixed logit model, provide rich information on how trade-offs are madeamong the manipulated attributes regarding travel time, cost, convenience, andreliability. Many findings deviate from results obtained in developed countries.


  

Bio of Feixiong Liao

He is currently an assistant professor at the Urban Planning andTransportation Group of the Eindhoven University of Technology. His researchinterests include activity-based modeling, accessibility analysis, discretechoice modeling, and supernetwork modeling for applications in transportationresearch and urban planning.