Investigation the Effects of Parking Pricing and Improving Public Transportation Policies on Private Car Use Reduction in Central Business District

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Salavati, Mohammad Ali | 2011

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 41446 (09)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Civil Engineering
Advisor(s): Kermanshah, Mohammad
Abstract:
Nowadays, with population growth and vehicle traffic increase, only providing transportation supply couldn’t answer the transportation demand. One of the most important solutions to reduce traffic is transportation demand management (TDM). In this research, the effects of parking pricing and improving public transportation services on private car demand reduction in city center are examined. The data are collected from private cars users in the city center of Isfahan through interviews. By stated preference method, the impacts of parking price and public transit travel time and other related factors were investigated. For this purpose, binary logit, multinomial logit and nested logit models were developed. The results show that the parking costand bus travel time are the most important variables in changing mode decisions. People’s choice sensitivity to these policies was calculated. Also a number of transportation systems characteristics such as private car travel time and users’ socio-economic characteristics such as education level, gender, marital status, age, and job type were identified as important factors in mode choice.
Keywords:
Transportation Demand Management ; Stated Preference Data ; Logit Model ; Mode Choice Model ; Parking Pricing

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