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Modelling the potential benefits of increased active travel

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  • Carroll, Paraic
  • Caulfield, Brian
  • Ahern, Aoife

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This research examines the behavioural response of commuters within the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), Ireland, to a range of policy incentives designed to encourage travellers to make greater use of sustainable travel modes for work. Several policy measures were evaluated using discrete choice and four stage modelling methods, to estimate the propensity of commuters to shift to active modes use (walking and cycling) rather than single occupancy vehicle (SOV). As a means of appraising the hypothetical introduction of a range of active mode policy incentives, a stated preference experiment (SP) was created as an instrument for gathering decision making, mode choice and socio-demographic data from a sample of commuters in the GDA, based on a number of designed policy scenarios. Extensive transport modelling work was subsequently conducted with the National Transport Authority (NTA) of Ireland using the National Regional Modelling System (RMS). A representation of the policy changes explored in the SP experiment was made in this four-stage transport model in order to produce real-life estimates of trip making behaviour and mode share, to test the behavioural response of the introduction of the policy incentives. Changes to parameters in the Mode Choice and Trip Assignment stages of the four-stage model were made to account for improvements made to the infrastructure and time attributes of walking and cycling in the model. The modifications were made based on ‘Do Nothing/Base’, ‘Do Something’, and ‘Do Maximum’ scenarios, which were determined by attribute level values taken from the SP survey.

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  • Carroll, Paraic & Caulfield, Brian & Ahern, Aoife, 2019. "Modelling the potential benefits of increased active travel," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 82-92.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:trapol:v:79:y:2019:i:c:p:82-92
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.04.020
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    1. Nosratzadeh, Hossein & Bhowmick, Debjit & Carmona, Ana Belén Ríos & Thompson, Jason & Thai, Thao & Pearson, Lauren & Beck, Ben, 2024. "A scoping review of the design and characteristics of e-bike financial incentives," OSF Preprints 5xgch, Center for Open Science.
    2. Caulfield, Brian & Charly, Anna, 2022. "Examining the potential environmental and travel time saved benefits of remote working hubs," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 139-147.
    3. Ross Higgins & Aoife Ahern, 2021. "Students’ and Parents’ Perceptions of Barriers to Cycling to School—An Analysis by Gender," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-16, November.

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