Sponsor
This research was funded by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities, or NITC, a program of TREC at Portland State University. Funding was also provided by Metro, the regional government for the Portland, OR, metropolitan area.
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
9-2015
Subjects
Pedestrians, Pedestrians -- Safety measures, Trip generation -- Oregon -- Portland, Transportation -- Planning -- Statistical methods
Abstract
Most research on walking behavior has focused on mode choice or walk-trip frequency. In contrast, this study is one of the first to analyze the destination choice behaviors of pedestrians. Using about 4,500 walk trips from a 2011 household travel survey in the Portland, OR, region, we estimated multinomial logit pedestrian destination choice models for six trip purposes. Independent variables included terms for impedance (walk-trip distance); size (employment by type, households); supportive pedestrian environments (parks, a pedestrian index of the environment variable called PIE); barriers to walking (terrain, industrial-type employment); and traveler characteristics. Unique to this study was the use of small-scale destination zone alternatives.
Distance was a significant deterrent to pedestrian destination choice, and people in carless or childless households were less sensitive to distance for some purposes. Employment (especially retail) was a strong attractor: doubling the number of jobs nearly doubled the odds of choosing a destination for home-based shopping walk trips. More attractive pedestrian environments were also positively associated with pedestrian destination choice after controlling for other factors. These results shed light on determinants of pedestrian destination choice behavior, and sensitivities in the models highlight potential policy-levers to increase walking activity. In addition, the destination choice models can be used in regional travel demand models or as pedestrian planning tools to evaluate land use and transportation policy and investment scenarios.
DOI
10.15760/trec.124
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16629
Citation Details
Clifton, K., Singleton, P., Muhs, C., and Schneider, P. (2015). Development of a Pedestrian Demand Estimation Tool. Report NITC-RR-677. Portland, OR: Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC), 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/trec.124
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Description
This is a final report, NITC-RR-677, from the NITC program of TREC at Portland State University, and can be found online at: http://trec.pdx.edu/
The project brief can be found here: http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16705
A presentation on the report is located here: http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16609