Random utility approach to re-design passengers interchange nodes

Abstract

The passengers interchange node is a complex infrastructure, where the user can choose among different modal options to do his/her trip. These transport infrastructures have various terminals (car park, bus stop, metro, light rail, railway, extra-urban and sub urban bus and so on). The passengers, inside interchange node, have to reach these terminals walking often with luggage and for long distances. We calibrated a discrete choice model taking into account attributes able to explain the passenger behaviour by observed flows and generalized least squares technique. Furthermore an ex ante / ex post analysis was carried out in order to design and evaluate measure to incentive modal integration improving perceived quality and transfer facility in walking path.