Understanding Drivers' Lane Choice Behavior at Pre-Signalized Intersections: Examining Implications for Efficiency and Applicability of Pre-Signal Use for Regular Traffic

In the face of urbanization and limited space, traffic management grapples with challenges, especially heavy left-turn volumes at signalized intersections. The pre-signal strategy, proposed by Li et al. (2014), emerges as a promising solution. It involves an additional traffic light upstream of the main intersection, creating a "sorted area"...

Understanding the commuters' choice for HOV bus services in the Netherlands: Understanding the commuters’ choice for HOV bus services in regards to the regular bus in the Netherlands

The implementation of a bus system is an attractive alternative for decision makers since it has a short lead time and the service can be easily adapted depending on the demand. Due to the flexible nature it allows for the use of fulfilling different magnitudes of demand. Usually bus service provide a lower level quality service, however busses...

Investigating different models that can be used to define the characteristics that influence customer behaviour in the online grocery sector

In the Netherlands, online groceries are becoming increasingly popular, as are the challenges grocery companies face in meeting customers' rising demand for smaller and cheaper time slots while maintaining thin profit margins due to a highly competitive market. Customer choice modelling will be used to identify customers' behaviour and control...

Time slot offering: the effect of various green labeling approaches on routing performance, considering customers' preferences: A case study at Crisp

A relatively new concept within demand management for time window assignment is green labeling; time windows which contribute to improving the routing performance in terms of sustainability. Certain time slots are given a so-called green label. From literature, limited information is known about the choice preference with regard to green...

What do pedestrians consider when choosing a route?: The role of safety, security, and attractiveness perceptions and the built environment during day and night walking

Increasing the use of non-motorized modes of transport, such as walking, is a worldwide objective aimed at improving the sustainability of cities. However, pedestrians may not choose to walk if the infrastructure fails to meet their needs or if they hold unfavourable perceptions regarding the built environment (BE). The current study aims to...

Influences of the Built Environment on Rural School Children’s Travel Mode Choice: The Case of Chengdu

Since the reform and opening up of China, the rural built environment has changed dramatically. There is a need to understand how such changes have impacted rural children’s school travel mode choice to design the built environment and plan schools accordingly. This paper combines field measurement methods and questionnaires to obtain data on...

Exploring the Influence of the Visual Attributes of Kaplan’s Preference Matrix in the Assessment of Urban Parks: A Discrete Choice Analysis

A significant majority of the literature on natural environments and urban green spaces justifies the preferences that people have for natural environments using four predictors defined by Kaplan’s preference matrix theory, namely coherence, legibility, complexity, and mystery. However, there are no studies implicitly focusing on the visual...

The built environment impacts on route choice from home to school for rural students: A stated preference experiment

Introduction: Rural roads and built environment in China have been developed enormously, but it is not clear whether these roads fulfill the needs of school children as they need to travel long to school every day.<br/><br/>Objective: It is crucial to understand the influencing factors of their travel mode choices to better design future country...

Modeling the competition between multiple Automated Mobility on-Demand operators: An agent-based approach

Automated Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems, in which fleets of automated vehicles provide on-demand services, are expected to transform urban mobility systems. Motivated by the rapid development of AMoD services delivered by self-driving car companies, an agent-based model (ABM) has been developed to study the coexistence phenomena of...

Departure time change to avoid crowd in trains: A stated choice experiment study in the Netherlands in a pandemic context

Crowding in trains during rush hour is known to cause discomfort. After the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, crowding has also been highlighted as a risk factor for catching Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) such as COVID-19 which has affected the demand of public transport. Several countries, including the Netherlands, have differential fare...

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...

An empirical study into the effects of private automated vehicles on drivers' parking location choice: An application to the city of The Hague

Automated vehicles (AVs) have been receiving much attention all over the world, where the first fully AVs are already operating on the road network. AVs could not only have a tremendous impact on the urban environment but also on human travel behaviour. The focus of this study is to gain insight into the effects of private highly AVs on drivers’...

Traveller choice behaviour at the passport control at airports

In 2011, Schiphol introduced the self-service passport control (SSPC), which now functions as an alternative for the traditional passport control (TPC) at four different locations within the airport. Travellers thus have to make an obligatory choice between the two types of services. At the Schengen/non-Schengen border between Lounge 1 and...

Modelling route choice of inland shipping vessels in the port of Rotterdam

Sample optimality in the design of stated choice experiments

Recent research by Bliemer and Rose (2005, 2009, in press) and Rose and Bliemer (2005) suggest as a measure for calculating sample size requirements for models estimated using stated choice data, the S-error statistic. Prior to this, existing sampling theories failed to adequately address the issue of sample size requirements specifically for...

Experienced and expected happiness in transport mode-decision making process