Copy of Sustainable Tranportation: Multi-Mode Travel

Bicycle sharing programs have emerged around the world as an affordable, convenient, and sustainable travel option with various benefits. One of the benefits of such programs is touted to be their positive impacts on transit ridership by increasing accessibility and providing much needed last-mile connection. (2015)

Under social, temporal, spatial and resource constraints, household members interact and search for ways to fulfill household and individual needs, one of which is travelling together. (2015)

Using the 2010 Swiss Microcensus on mobility and transportation, a new approach to characterizing tours is explored. Building on recent work by Ho & Mulley (2013), the authors elaborate upon their typology of tours, developed based not only on tour complexity, but also on the spatial distribution of destinations within tours. (2015)

For developing sustainable travel policies, it may be helpful to identify travelers that make use of more than one mode in a given time period, hence multimodal travelers. (2015)

While several studies have investigated the links between crime travel behavior, little research estimates the direct effects on mode choice of crime along different lengths of a person’s route, from home origin to station destination, particularly as it relates to the first and/or last mile of the trip-a key area for encouraging alternative modes. (2015)