Exploring the role of public transport service and walking route related factors to identify maximum walking distances to bus stops in the Netherlands

This paper presents a study regarding the factors affecting the maximum distance travelers are willing to walk to a bus stop. The study focuses on bus services provided at and walking routes towards bus stops. Travelers’ evaluations are collected using a stated preference experiment. Based on 7911 e...

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Main Authors: Peter van der Waerden, Jaap van der Waerden, Michiel Burger
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-01-01
Series:Journal of Public Transportation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X2400016X
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description This paper presents a study regarding the factors affecting the maximum distance travelers are willing to walk to a bus stop. The study focuses on bus services provided at and walking routes towards bus stops. Travelers’ evaluations are collected using a stated preference experiment. Based on 7911 evaluations of 879 respondents, a latent class ordered logit model is estimated showing that both bus service and walking route related attributes significantly contribute to the maximum distance travelers are willing to walk from home to a bus stop. The parameter estimates show that the most influential attributes are the bus frequency at the bus stop and the presence of street lighting along the route between home and bus stop. The model also shows that based on the evaluations three different classes of respondents can be distinguished. Membership of a class depends on traveler related characteristics: gender, residential area, and bus use.
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spelling doaj-art-5c34a1478ae0473085099cbf44d79a132025-08-20T02:49:32ZengElsevierJournal of Public Transportation2375-09012024-01-012610009610.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100096Exploring the role of public transport service and walking route related factors to identify maximum walking distances to bus stops in the NetherlandsPeter van der Waerden0Jaap van der Waerden1Michiel Burger2Urban Planning and Transportation group, Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB, the Netherlands; Corresponding author.Methods group, Department of Business Administration, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the NetherlandsConstruction Management & Engineering Group, Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB, the NetherlandsThis paper presents a study regarding the factors affecting the maximum distance travelers are willing to walk to a bus stop. The study focuses on bus services provided at and walking routes towards bus stops. Travelers’ evaluations are collected using a stated preference experiment. Based on 7911 evaluations of 879 respondents, a latent class ordered logit model is estimated showing that both bus service and walking route related attributes significantly contribute to the maximum distance travelers are willing to walk from home to a bus stop. The parameter estimates show that the most influential attributes are the bus frequency at the bus stop and the presence of street lighting along the route between home and bus stop. The model also shows that based on the evaluations three different classes of respondents can be distinguished. Membership of a class depends on traveler related characteristics: gender, residential area, and bus use.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X2400016XBus stopsCatchment areaStated preference
spellingShingle Peter van der Waerden
Jaap van der Waerden
Michiel Burger
Exploring the role of public transport service and walking route related factors to identify maximum walking distances to bus stops in the Netherlands
Journal of Public Transportation
Bus stops
Catchment area
Stated preference
title Exploring the role of public transport service and walking route related factors to identify maximum walking distances to bus stops in the Netherlands
title_full Exploring the role of public transport service and walking route related factors to identify maximum walking distances to bus stops in the Netherlands
title_fullStr Exploring the role of public transport service and walking route related factors to identify maximum walking distances to bus stops in the Netherlands
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the role of public transport service and walking route related factors to identify maximum walking distances to bus stops in the Netherlands
title_short Exploring the role of public transport service and walking route related factors to identify maximum walking distances to bus stops in the Netherlands
title_sort exploring the role of public transport service and walking route related factors to identify maximum walking distances to bus stops in the netherlands
topic Bus stops
Catchment area
Stated preference
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X2400016X
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