Factors Effecting the Usage of Public Transport Multinomial Logit Model

Abstract- Urban transportation is a mixed traffic, accessibility is very much required in countries like India for the movement of commuters in their daily life without time laps with in aspects of public participation, for overall development. Commuters prefers various modes to overcome the time laps, urban transport planner has to meet the demand of commuter. Present study focused to increase the public transport accessibility in safe and efficient way, to reduce the congestions and also to reduce the journey time.Surveys are conducted to collect the data. This study helps in analyzing the commuters mode choice and by using a simple mathematical model. SPSS is used to develop and validate the model. multinomial logit model is adopted to analyze mode choice behavior. The total mode share includes walk, bicycle, auto-rickshaw, two wheeler, car and bus in which two wheelers form the major share. Index Terms- Activity based approach, House hold travel survey, Mode choice, Logit models, SPSS I