Schedule-based passenger and freight mode choice models for ex-urban trips

Abstract

Transit services offered in non urban contexts are generally characterized by low frequency and high regularity. This leads to specific assumptions in route choice behaviour and consistently to specific approaches to the route choice modelling, namely the schedule based approach. These assumptions should also be considered consistently in mode choice modelling. In this paper, possible approaches to mode choice modelling in non urban contexts consistent with the schedule based approach are discussed and described both for passenger and for freight transport.