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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT,Vol.143,Issue050160182

语言

英文

关键字

Flexible transit service; China; Willingness; Survey; Statistical analysis

作者单位

[Yu, Jie] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, POB 784, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA. [Lu, Xiaolin; Pan, Shuliang] Shandong Univ, Sch Control Sci & Engn, 17923 Jingshi Rd, Jinan 250061, Shandong, Peoples R China. [Guo, Chen] Inner Mongolia Univ, Sch Transportat, 24 Zhaojun Rd, Hohhot 010020, Inner Mongolia, Peoples R China. Yu, J (reprint author), Univ Wisconsin, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, POB 784, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA. E-Mail: yu22@uwm.edu; luxiaolin1314@gmail.com; panshuliang@mail.sdu.edu.cn; guochen0703@sohu.com

摘要

This paper examines traveler's willingness to use flexible transit services prior to their deployment in Chinese cities. A total of 2,403 samples were collected in Jinan Qilu Software Park (the Park) by a self-reported questionnaire survey, which include three types of questions, namely, questions on demographic information, public transit customer satisfaction, and flexible transit service-related information. Through correlation and spatial analyses of travel characteristics and profiles of potential flexible transit service users, this paper reaches the following research findings: (1) around 60% of the respondents in the Park are willing to use a flexible transit service. Women, enterprise employees, and people with higher education and income levels are more willing to use a flexible transit service; (2) respondents are willing to pay an average fare of 4 Chinese Yuan (0.60 U.S. dollars equivalent) per trip to use a flexible transit service; and (3) respondents express a higher preference (65.5%) for a service that has the fixed-route attribute but with easy-to-access locations for pick-up/drop-off points. In addition, different types of flexible transit services are needed to accommodate specific spatial and temporal travel attributes of users. (C) 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers.