Applying a random forest method approach to model travel mode choice behavior

L Cheng, X Chen, J De Vos, X Lai, F Witlox - Travel behaviour and society, 2019 - Elsevier
The analysis of travel mode choice is important in transportation planning and policy-making
in order to understand and forecast travel demands. Research in the field of machine …

Impact of working from home on activity-travel behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An aggregate structural analysis

R Rafiq, MG McNally, YS Uddin, T Ahmed - Transportation Research Part A …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created significant public health concerns that led the
public and private sectors to impose stay-at-home and work-from-home policies. Although …

Exploring the influence of built environment on travel mode choice considering the mediating effects of car ownership and travel distance

C Ding, D Wang, C Liu, Y Zhang, J Yang - Transportation Research Part A …, 2017 - Elsevier
Though there is a growing literature on the connection between the built environment and
travel behavior, limited efforts have been made to consider the intermediary nature of car …

Understanding commuting patterns using transit smart card data

X Ma, C Liu, H Wen, Y Wang, YJ Wu - Journal of Transport Geography, 2017 - Elsevier
Commuting reflects the long-term travel behavior of people and significantly impacts urban
traffic congestion and emission. Recent advances in data availability provide new …

The hidden characteristics of land-use mix indices: An overview and validity analysis based on the land use in Melbourne, Australia

J Jiao, J Rollo, B Fu - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The land-use mix index is a way to quantify the mixture of land-use patterns. Due to practical
limitations, few studies have highlighted the validity of land-use mix indices. This paper aims …

Built environmental impacts on commuting mode choice and distance: Evidence from Shanghai

B Sun, A Ermagun, B Dan - Transportation research part D: transport and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The impacts of the built environment characteristics in residential neighborhoods on
commuting behavior are explored in the literature. Scant evidence, however, is provided to …

Revisiting car dependency: A worldwide analysis of car travel in global metropolitan areas

P Saeidizand, K Fransen, K Boussauw - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
This article aims to contribute to the understanding of car dependency of cities, a line of
inquiry which emerged in the late 1980s. First, we update possibly outdated insights based …

Non-linear associations between zonal built environment attributes and transit commuting mode choice accounting for spatial heterogeneity

C Ding, X Cao, B Yu, Y Ju - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding how built environment attributes are associated with transit commuting mode
choice is essential for planners to promoting transit through land use and transportation …

How do built-environment factors affect travel behavior? A spatial analysis at different geographic scales

J Hong, Q Shen, L Zhang - Transportation, 2014 - Springer
Much of the literature shows that a compact city with well-mixed land use tends to produce
lower vehicle miles traveled (VMT), and consequently lower energy consumption and less …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in commuting time of European workers: A cross-country analysis

JI Giménez-Nadal, JA Molina, J Velilla - Transport Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European
countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in …