Public Transportation Decision Making

Public Transportation Decision Making

Benjamin Y. Warner
Sven Wilson

Warner, Benjamin Y.; Wilson, Sven

Abstract

People make decisions regarding whether they will use public transportation based on many factors. I create a logistic binary response model where one’s decision about whether to use public transportation is a function of the size of a city that the person lives in, number of vehicles the person’s household has available, household income, working status, and day of the week. Workers may find public transportation more convenient if the transportation is close to their home. This is more likely to occur in an area with high population density.