Assessment on passengers' choice of transportation modes in addis ababa: a case study at " torehayloche - mexico" route

Abstract

In satisfying the need to move, public transport has a recent time becomes the most commonly used mode of transport. Passengers are perceived to act as rational beings, choosing travel modes most likely to offer them maximum utility. The choice of a suitable transport mods greatly affects the affectivity as well as profitability of the realized transportations. Therefore, the ways public transport services are delivered as well as their quality is important because of their effect both on the passengers and the demand of service. This paper attempts to assess passengers' choice of transportation modes along the route of Torhayloche - Mexico, to examine citizens' perceptions of the Bus, Taxi, and Light rail conditions. A multinomial logit model is developed in order to account both socioeconomic and transport related parameters. The study basically relies on primary data for its analysis and findings; however primary data has been generated and analyzed with the help of questionnaires and sample surveys. Using questionnaires, the study was conducted at five main terminals along the study area involving 359 passengers who were available to be at the various terminals during the survey. The overall findings of this study revealed that passengers among others socio-economic factors; sex and income have values of (p=0.032) and (p=0.001) respectively and transport related factors as (p=0.000) have significant influences on public transport mode choice. The result indicates, majority of the passengers were using LRT (43.45%) and (28.97%) Minibus taxi and the remaining (27.58%) of the passengers choice were Anbessa City bus. The research concludes that the choice of travel mode is affected by everything from transport-specific factors to socio-economic parameters. Since, majority of the passengers are choose the Light rail transit therefore there should be an enhancement of Light rail transit and considering also the quality as well as quantity of those Anbessa city bus, Minibus taxi is important. Finally, the paper puts suggestions that revolve around policy issues and decision making considerations.