Trip chain complexity: a comparison among latent classes of daily mobility patterns

This paper studies the relationship between trip chain complexity and daily travel behaviour of travellers. While trip chain complexity is conventionally investigated between travel modes, our scope is the more aggregated level of a person’s activity-travel pattern. Using data from the Netherlands Mobility Panel, a latent class cluster...

Understanding the Role of Cycling to Urban Transit Stations through a Simultaneous Access Mode and Station Choice Model

Governments worldwide are aiming to increase sustainable mode use to increase sustainability, livability, and accessibility. Integration of bicycle and transit can increase catchment areas of transit compared with walking and thus provide better competition to non-sustainable modes. To achieve this, effective measures have to be designed that...

The experienced mode choice set and its determinants: Commuting trips in the Netherlands

Active modes take up an increasingly important place on the global policy-making agenda. In the Netherlands, a country that is well-known for its high shares of walking and cycling, the government aims at achieving a modal shift among 200,000 commuting car drivers towards using the bicycle. To this end, policy measures need to be introduced....

Determinants of urban wayfinding styles

Everyday people find their way towards work, supermarkets, or unfamiliar places are explored for a social visit. Understanding how differences in urban wayfinding behaviour relate to daily travel patterns is important to describe route choice behaviour, identify potential navigation problems, design more legible cities, and provide...

Cycling or walking? Determinants of mode choice in the Netherlands

Interest into active modes (i.e. walking and cycling) has increased significantly over the past decades, with governments worldwide ultimately aiming for a modal shift towards active modes. To devise policies that promote this goal, understanding the determinants that influence the choice for an active mode is essential. The Netherlands is...

Walking and bicycle catchment areas of tram stops: Factors and insights

Pollution and congestion are important issues in urban mobility. These can potentially be solved by multimodal transport, such as the bicycle-Transit combination, which benefits from the flexible aspect of the bicycle and the wider spatial range of public transport. In addition, the bicycle can increase the catchment areas of public transport...

Latent classes of daily mobility patterns: the relationship with attitudes towards modes

Active modes (i.e. walking and cycling) have received significant attention by governments worldwide, due to the benefits related to the use of these modes. Consequently, governments are aiming for a modal shift from motorised to active modes. Attitudes are generally considered to play an important role in travel behaviour. Understanding the...

Evaluating a data-driven approach for choice set identification using GPS bicycle route choice data from Amsterdam

Specifying the choice set for travel behaviour analysis is a non-trivial task. Its size and composition are known to influence the results of model estimation and prediction. Most studies specify the choice set using choice set generation algorithms. These methods can introduce two types of errors to the specified choice set: false negative ...

Determinants of the consideration mode choice set

Evaluating a data-driven approach for choice set identification

The specification of the choice set for travel behaviour analysis is a non-trivial task, as its size and composition are known to influence the results of model estimation and prediction. Most studies specify the choice set using choice set generation algorithms. These methods can introduce two severe errors to the specified choice set: false...

How do people cycle in Amsterdam? Estimating cyclists’ route choice determinants using GPS data from an urban area

Nowadays, the bicycle is seen as a sustainable and healthy substitute for the car in urban environments. The Netherlands is the leading country in terms of bicycle use, especially in urban environments. Yet route choice models featuring inner-city travel that include cyclists are lacking. This paper estimates a cyclists’ route choice model for...

How do people cycle in Amsterdam, Netherlands?: Estimating cyclists' route choice determinants with GPS data from an urban area

Nowadays, the bicycle is seen as a sustainable and healthy substitute for<br/>the car in urban environments. The Netherlands is the leading country<br/>in bicycle use, especially in urban environments. Yet route choice models<br/>featuring inner-city travel that includes cyclists are lacking. This study<br/>estimated a cyclists’ route choice...

Using Bluetooth and WiFi to unravel real-world slow mode activity travel behaviour

Slow modes have an increasing share in urban mobility. The lack of accurate revealed data has so far hampered scientific research aimed at unravelling slow mode mobility.<br/><br/>Multiple types of data can be collected to gain better insight into slow mode transport and traffic operations, such as counts on specific locations (cross-sections),...