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Understanding the effects of transit benefits on employees¿ travel behavior: Evidence from the New York-New Jersey Region.
Año:2017
Áreas de investigación
  • Ingenierías,
  • Ingeniería civil y arquitectura,
  • Transporte
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Descripción
Implementing effective travel demand management measures provides an opportunity to reduce transport dependence on the private car. There is growing acknowledgement that the strategy of implementing transit bene?ts may boost transit ridership and reduce per-sonal vehicle use. This research contributes to the understanding of this issue by examining the relationship between commuter bene?ts and mode choice for commuting trips in the states of New York and New Jersey (US). Based on individual data from the Regional Household Travel Survey conducted by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council and North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, we adopted a multinomial logit model to identify the extent to which transport bene?ts to employees ? including public transport-related, private transport-related and bene?ts for walking and cycling ?promote changes in commuters? modal split. The analysis shows that commuter bene?ts play a signi?cant role in explaining observed travel patterns. Bene?t programs that pay for auto expenses (e.g. toll payments, mileage reimbursement, free parking) are negatively correlated with transit, biking, and walking, while employer-funded bene?t programs for transit passes and bike reimbursements increase their respective mode shares. This result con?rms that promoting these types of measures is an effective policy to encourage the use of public transport modes, thus increasing ef?ciency and sustainability in daily mobility patterns.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
Si
Título de la revista
Transportation Research Part a-Policy And Practice
ISSN
0965-8564
Factor de impacto JCR
1,994
Información de impacto
Datos JCR del año 2015
Volumen
99
DOI
10.1016/j.tra.2017.02.009
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Planificación del Transporte