A Primary Model of Commuting Travel Mode Choice by Taking Account of Disutility of Commutation

Abstract

To improve the services of mass transit systems so as to attract additional travelers switching from private cars, it is necessary to grasp the travel mode choice behaviors of the workers. This paper attempted to propose a travel mode choice model for the workers commuting by mass transit systems by taking account of disutility derived from both processes of going to work and returning home. First, commutation activity was defined as a complete process that starts on departure time from home in the morning and ends at home-returning time in the evening. Meanwhile, disutility involved in going to work process and returning home process were formulated based on the feature that commutation is conditional on temporal constraints of the appointed work start time and end time. Then, a travel mode choice model synthetically considering both processes of going to work and returning home was proposed and calibrated by applying Person Trip survey data in Fukuoka City. The result indicated that home-returning process actually affects the travel mode choices even if its influence is less than that of going to work process. The model has good fitness in representing travel mode choice behaviors of the workers using mass transit systems.

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