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Modeling Residential Sorting Effects to Understand the Impact of the Built Environment on Commute Mode Choice

This paper examines the significance of residential sorting or self selection effects in understanding the impacts of the built environment on travel choices. Land use and transportation system attributes are often treated as exogenous variables in models of travel behavior. Such models ignore the potential self selection processes that may be in play wherein households and individuals choose t...

Mode Choice and Transit Route Choice Behavior in Montreal : Insights from McGill University Members Commute Patterns

The Delta Method to Compute Confidence Intervals of Predictions from Discrete Choice Model: An Application to Commute Mode Choice Model

The influence of travel attitudes, commute mode choice, and perceived neighborhood characteristics on physical activity.

BACKGROUND This study examines the relationships between physical activity, travel attitudes, commute mode choice, and perceived neighborhood characteristics. A recent study found that people who walk or bike during their commute exercise more outside of the commute than do people who commute by mass transit or car. The current study seeks to explain what might account for this relationship, us...

Modeling the Choice Continuum: an Integrated Model of Residential Location, Auto Ownership, Bicycle Ownership, and Commute Tour Mode Choice Decisions

The integrated modeling of land use and transportation choices involves analyzing a continuum of choices that characterize people’s lifestyles across temporal scales. This includes long-term choices such as residential and work location choices that affect land-use, medium-term choices such as vehicle ownership, and short-term choices such as travel mode choice that affect travel demand. Prior ...