The influences of real time information provided on-board rail services

The paper reports the first part of two simultaneous studies on urban travel patterns in Malaysia. The first refers a completed research that focused on the variation in mode switching behaviors among rail users in a developing city done by the first author. Meanwhile, the second author deals with t...

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Main Authors: Bachok, Syahriah, Mohamad, Diana
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/2304/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/2304/1/BachokSP18-1ITS.pdf
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author Bachok, Syahriah
Mohamad, Diana
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Mohamad, Diana
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description The paper reports the first part of two simultaneous studies on urban travel patterns in Malaysia. The first refers a completed research that focused on the variation in mode switching behaviors among rail users in a developing city done by the first author. Meanwhile, the second author deals with the prospective of telecommuting and its relations with travel time estimations and travel time application. This work is still in progress. It aims at modeling such behaviors in the event of services delay, an outcome that will be fed into the planning of supplementary feeder services. It is one of the first attempts at explaining the changes in travel decisions resulting from information provision on-board public transport. In this report, a case study was selected to illustrate the differing impacts of various media on travel decisions. Passengers of a commuter-rail-system servicing Klang Valley conurbation in Malaysia were chosen as respondents of a stated preference survey. Paper presented delay information to test the hypothetical scenarios. Three media (a voice recording, a scrolling multi-lines variable message sign and *.*mpeg movies) were provided. Preliminary findings illustrated the effects of varying the medium of information dissemination. When delay information was conveyed in audio and textual versions, mode change decisions for the continuing journeys were found to be inversely related to delay durations. A similar but inconsistent trend was depicted when visual or graphical media were presented. Significant tests of underlying factors including sociodemographics and trip characteristics also showed some degrees of influences on mode switching behaviors.
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spelling iium-23042021-07-27T14:04:17Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/2304/ The influences of real time information provided on-board rail services Bachok, Syahriah Mohamad, Diana TA1001 Transportation engineering (General) The paper reports the first part of two simultaneous studies on urban travel patterns in Malaysia. The first refers a completed research that focused on the variation in mode switching behaviors among rail users in a developing city done by the first author. Meanwhile, the second author deals with the prospective of telecommuting and its relations with travel time estimations and travel time application. This work is still in progress. It aims at modeling such behaviors in the event of services delay, an outcome that will be fed into the planning of supplementary feeder services. It is one of the first attempts at explaining the changes in travel decisions resulting from information provision on-board public transport. In this report, a case study was selected to illustrate the differing impacts of various media on travel decisions. Passengers of a commuter-rail-system servicing Klang Valley conurbation in Malaysia were chosen as respondents of a stated preference survey. Paper presented delay information to test the hypothetical scenarios. Three media (a voice recording, a scrolling multi-lines variable message sign and *.*mpeg movies) were provided. Preliminary findings illustrated the effects of varying the medium of information dissemination. When delay information was conveyed in audio and textual versions, mode change decisions for the continuing journeys were found to be inversely related to delay durations. A similar but inconsistent trend was depicted when visual or graphical media were presented. Significant tests of underlying factors including sociodemographics and trip characteristics also showed some degrees of influences on mode switching behaviors. 2010-10 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/2304/1/BachokSP18-1ITS.pdf Bachok, Syahriah and Mohamad, Diana (2010) The influences of real time information provided on-board rail services. In: 17th Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress, 25-29 Oct., 2010, Busan, Korea. http://www.itsworldcongress.kr/
spellingShingle TA1001 Transportation engineering (General)
Bachok, Syahriah
Mohamad, Diana
The influences of real time information provided on-board rail services
title The influences of real time information provided on-board rail services
title_full The influences of real time information provided on-board rail services
title_fullStr The influences of real time information provided on-board rail services
title_full_unstemmed The influences of real time information provided on-board rail services
title_short The influences of real time information provided on-board rail services
title_sort influences of real time information provided on-board rail services
topic TA1001 Transportation engineering (General)
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/2304/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/2304/1/BachokSP18-1ITS.pdf