The determinants of travel demand between rail stations: A direct transit demand model using multilevel analysis for the Washington D.C. Metrorail system

Hiroyuki Iseki, Chao Liu and Gerrit Knaap

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2018, vol. 116, issue C, 635-649

Abstract: Transit demand models have become indispensable tools for transit planners and mangers in the 21st century. By quantifying the relationship between transit ridership, the cost of travel, the character of the built environment, and the socio-economic characteristics of riders, such models enable transit planners and managers to make more informed decisions regarding transit routes, levels of service, transit fares, transit oriented development (TOD) and other transit supply parameters. Direct ridership models (DRMs) are now able to address transit ridership at each station directly with higher sensitivity to built environmental characteristics in well-defined station areas. More recently Origin-Destination DRMs have begun to use data on ridership between each origin and destination pair to facilitate more precise estimation of transit demand by origin-destination pair.

Keywords: Metrorail transit; Direct transit demand model; Origin-destination ridership; Multilevel (hierarchical) modeling; Transit oriented development; Fare-card data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.06.011

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