Factors Affecting Mode Choice in Accessing Railway Station Study in Nakhon Ratchasima

Abstract

This paper explores the travel mode selection in accessing the railway station. Because the accessibility services were outstandingly undeveloped for over a decade, it is contradicting the growth rate of population and travel demand. Mode choice investigation would explain the practical suggestion of traveler's behavior. The study will give the result of significant factors, which affected mode choice behavior in the specific study area by using field survey and questioners interview method. The binary logistic regression analysis is the core of the study, another technique, a hierarchical technique, will be applied to gain model performance. The satisfaction factors are representing traveler experience in transport modes accessing the railway station tested in modeling processes. Thus, the results can contribute to a better understanding of the significant factors of transport mode selection, and moreover, the expectation for long term management and improvement of the public transport systems.