scholarly journals Does Wind Discourage Sustainable Transportation Mode Choice? Findings from San Francisco, California, USA

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyungkyoo Kim ◽  
Elizabeth Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Transportation Mode ◽  
Transportation Mode Choice

Urban Transportation Mode Choice and Carbon Emissions in Southeast Asia

2018 ◽  
Vol 2672 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Shiuen Ng
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Transportation Mode ◽  
Policies And Measures ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Transportation Development ◽  
Transportation Mode Choice ◽  
Policy Scenarios

Cities are growing differently across the world, even within the same region, and presenting different transportation trends and challenges. Existing transportation services and travel behavior are some of the key variables shaping future transportation trends and carbon emissions projections. This study uses five developing cities in Southeast Asia to illustrate how different policy scenarios can help cities achieve more sustainable transportation development. Cities in Southeast Asia encompass distinctive characteristics, such as a wide range of transportation alternatives, often in the form of informal transit, and although they are not growing as rapidly as Chinese or Indian cities, their levels of transportation emissions have been increasing consistently. This study examines how different policies and measures will affect transportation mode choice and carbon emissions through the construction of mode choice models and the application of three policy scenarios. Carbon emissions can be reduced by as much as 93% in 2050 if cities implement a combination of land use planning changes, public transportation development, and economic policies for a modal shift to more energy efficient mode choices. Such policies and measures will therefore be able to contribute to city level climate goals or national climate targets.

A Study on the Transportation Mode Choice Behaviour of Individuals With Different Socio-Economic Status

2018 ◽  
pp. 476-493
Author(s):  
Arun Bajracharya
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Mode Choice ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Choice Behaviour ◽  
Transportation Mode ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Private Car ◽  
Transportation Mode Choice

This chapter presents a study on the transportation mode choice behaviour of individuals with different socio-economic status. A previously developed system dynamics model has been adopted by differentiating the population mass into upper, middle, and lower classes. The simulation experiments with the model revealed that generally the upper class individuals would be more inclined to use a private car (PC) instead of public transportation (PT) when their tendency is compared to middle and lower class individuals. It was also observed that lower class individuals would be more willing to use PT instead of PC when their tendency is compared to middle and upper class individuals. As such, it would be difficult to encourage the upper class individuals to use PT instead of PC, and it would be successively easier to do so in the case of middle and lower class individuals. However, the results also indicated that under certain different circumstances, the upper class individuals would also prefer to go for PT, and the lower class ones could prefer to own and use PC instead of PT.

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