Importance of traveler attitudes in the choice of public transportation to work: Findings from the Regional Transportation Authority Attitudinal Survey

Transportation

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 643-661

  Popuri, Yasasvi ^a   Proussaloglou, Kimon ^a   Ayvalik, Cemal ^a   Koppelman, Frank ^b   Lee, Aimee ^c  

^a CAMBRIDGE SYSTEMATICS INC   (United States)

^b Midwest System Sciences Inc   (United States)

^c Strategic and Long Range Planning RTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes and perceptions; Elasticities; Factor analysis; Logistic regression; Mode choice; Public transportation

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MODE CHOICE; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION;

ELASTICITY; MASS TRANSPORTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; BUS TRANSPORT; COMMUTING; DECISION MAKING; FACTOR ANALYSIS; JOURNEY TO WORK; LOGISTICS; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL TIME;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959205019     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-011-9336-y     Document Type: Article

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