Estimation of crowding discomfort in public transport: Results from Santiago de Chile
By Alejandro Tirachini, Ricardo Hurtubia, T. Dekker, Ricardo A. Daziano. 2017
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The relationship between train occupancy, comfort and perceived security is analysed, using data from a survey and stated choice (SC) study of users of Santiago’s Metro (subway) system. Mode choice models where crowding is one of the main explanatory variables are estimated and crowding multipliers to measure its relevance on travel time disutility for sitting and standing are computed. An international comparison with previous studies from London, Paris, Singapore and Sweden is presented. The type of estimated models include Multinomial Logit, Mixed Logit, and Latent Class models. Results show that there is significant heterogeneity in crowding perception across the population. Users classes with low and high crowding multipliers are identified, in which gender, age and income play a role. In the SC survey, occupancy levels were shown with three alternative forms of representation (text, 2D diagram or photo), however we did not find relevant influences of the different forms of representation on crowding perception.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Transportation
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Citations in the corpus
- COVID-19 and Public Transportation: Current Assessment, Prospects, and Research Needs (2020, background): “Passenger reluctance to ride a crowded vehicle is likely to be much higher due to the pandemic, reflected in larger crowding penalties than previously reported (Hörcher, Graham, and Anderson 2017; Tirachini et al. 2017; Yap, Cats, and van Arem 2020).”
- Crowding valuation in urban tram and bus transportation based on smart card data (2018, methodology): “Tirachini et al. (2016) estimated the passenger valuation of crowding for metro travelling on the Singapore network, fully based on observed behaviour of passengers willing to travel in the opposite direction first to secure a seat in the trip in their preferred direction.”