Abstract
High-speed railway (HSR) has become a sustainable transport mode for inter-city travel, especially in China. As public transport (PT), the use of HSR involves access and egress to and from HSR stations. However, the literature focusing on the intra-city mode choice of HSR travelers is limited, especially regarding their differential socio-demographic and trip characteristics. This paper aims to fill that gap with an analysis of access/egress mode choice for business and leisure journeys in the Yangzi River Delta region. Using the HSR survey from Fudan University, we found that in China older and wealthier travelers have a strong preference for car use. For leisure travel, the explanatory power of the socio-demographic variables is much more influential in the egress than the access stage. With increasing access time, business travelers may be enticed to shift to a faster form of PT (e.g., subway rather than bus) in the access stage. With increasing line-haul time, only business travelers have a stronger preference for car use as their intra-city mode choice for business activities. A higher number of subway lines and diversity of land use around HSR stations is associated with less car use for business travelers in the egress stage.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 701-721 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Journal of Transport and Land Use |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2019 |
Funding
Copyright 2019 Haoran Yang, Martin Dijst, Jianxi Feng, & Dick Ettema http://dx.doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2019.1420 ISSN: 1938-7849 | Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution – Noncommercial License 4.0 The Journal of Transport and Land Use is the official journal of the World Society for Transport and Land Use (WSTLUR) and is published and sponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies. We would like to thank Dr. Aloys Borgers for the support on the discrete choice model. This research is sponsored by Shanghai Pujiang Program. We also thank the financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (41871135, 41971155), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (090214380026, 090214380025) and the affiliated institutions of the first author—The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, Future City Lab, and School of Urban and Regional Science of East China Normal University.
Keywords
- Access/egress stages
- China
- High-speed railway (hsr)
- Mode choice
