Reconstructing Surveyed Itineraries and Choices between Inter-City and Regional Train Services

Authors

  • Florian Heinitz
    Affiliation

    Institut Verkehr und Raum, FH Erfurt University of Applied Sciences

  • Erik Fritzlar
    Affiliation

    Institut Verkehr und Raum, FH Erfurt University of Applied Sciences

https://doi.org/10.3311/PPtr.7465

Abstract

This contribution presents findings from a network-based examination of observed route choice behaviour of railway travellers in the German Federal State of Thuringia. The purpose is twofold: On the one hand, the idea was to assure that the VISUM 12 timetable network models were capable of ex-post reconstructing the exact itineraries from passenger surveys. When this could be achieved, the second step was to use these RP data to explain the binary choice between the combined usage of the Inter-City and regional network versus the regional network only through econometric modelling. The trade-off between different service level characteristics was of special interest. The O-D specific demand split was incorporated in the State Transport Model to replace a formerly fixed segmentation of regional network captives from choice riders on the entire network.

Keywords:

transport demand modelling, route choice, discrete choice, railway mode

Published Online

2014-08-06

How to Cite

Heinitz, F., Fritzlar, E. (2014) “Reconstructing Surveyed Itineraries and Choices between Inter-City and Regional Train Services”, Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering, 42(2), pp. 111–117. https://doi.org/10.3311/PPtr.7465

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