This study investigates the potential demand for public transit for commuting trips – a rarely explored perspective for the study of public transit systems. Potential demand for public transit refers to the kind of demand that is not explicitly expressed or realized but will be present if condition permits (i.e. when public transit facility is accessible). In this study, potential demand is sur...

1 This research investigates the route choice behavior of cyclists in the City of Toronto using data 2 collected from a smartphone application deployed to a large number of cyclists in the City. A 3 total 4556 cyclists registered for this study and logged over 20,000 commuting trips over a study 4 period of 9 months. In addition to the time-stamped second-by-second GPS readings of each 5 trip, ...

Abstract In recent years, the e-bike has become increasingly popular in many European countries. With higher speeds and less effort needed, is a promising mode of transport to many, it considered good alternative for certain car trips by policy-makers planners. A major limitation studies that investigate such substitution effects e-bike, their reliance on cross-sectional data which do not allow...

Transportation policies and plans encourage non-motorized transportation and the establishment of performance measures to assess progress towards multi-modal system goals. Challenges in fostering walking and bicycling include the lack of data for measuring rates of walking and bicycling over time and 5! differences in pedestrians and bicyclists and the trips they make. This paper analyzes trave...

We used participant-produced photography to investigate everyday commuting practices in Cambridge, UK. Photovoice served as an observational method for producing ethnographically rich data. A total of 19 participants produced over 500 photos about their journeys to and from work and took part in photo-elicitation interviews. Three themes emerged. First, many images depicted 'well-being' in comm...

At city level, personal monitoring is the best way to assess people's exposure. However, it is usually estimated from a few monitoring stations. Our aim was to determine the exposure to black carbon (BC) and BC dose for 45 schoolchildren with portable microaethalometers and to evaluate the relationship between personal monitoring and fixed stations at schools (indoor and outdoor) and in an urba...

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is often proposed tool for achieving sustainable mobility and, in particular, increasing the share of public transport trips cities. In this paper we conduct rapid review literature on MaaS using Moovit case study, explore association between popularity searches Google term “Moovit” and workers that commute by transport. The exercise focuses metropolitan areas Unite...

Core and peripheral contrasts in journey-to-work trip length can be interpreted as imputing the relative value of origin and destination accessibility (yielding theoretical proxies for rent and wages). Because the main variables are shown to be critically dependent on spatial structure, they may be interpreted as showing the shadow prices due to comparative location. There is also a unifying co...

1 In this paper, the necessity for treating intra-household correlation is investigated by analyzing 2 two travel behavior indices, i.e. travel time and travel distance, for three important travel motives 3 (commuting, shopping, and leisure). Data stemming from the 2010 Belgian National Household 4 Travel Survey are used in the analysis. Two model approaches that accommodate for intra5 househol...