Abstract
The rapid aggregation of modern urban population and the rapid growth of car travel lead to traffic congestion, environmental pollution, and other problems. In view of the limited land resources in our country, it is impractical to meet residents’ travel demand by blindly increasing traffic supply. Therefore, addressing the urban road congestion problem for sustainable development of modern cities, the paper makes research on residents’ travel behavior characteristics and travel preference under the condition of multimodal transportation to formulate reasonable traffic demand management strategy for the guide on public traffic demand, bus priority strategy, and congestion management. The operation characteristic of each transportation mode is analyzed by comparing its related traffic and economic characteristics. Multimode traffic choice behavior is discussed by establishing multiple logistic regression models to analyze the main influencing factors to travelers’ social and economic attributes, travel characteristics, and preference based on travel survey data of urban residents. The paper proposes the development of an urban public transportation system and travelling mode shift from cars to public transportation as reasonable travel structure for congestion management and sustainable development of modern cities.
Highlights
Composed of various traffic modes such as car, bus, and subway and different and mutual influencing parts for the system’s coordination and stability including pedestrians, vehicles, roads, environment, and other elements, modern urban traffic in China is considered as the basic condition for the city’s rapid and stable development and is meeting people’s increasing traffic demands to certain extent [1]
Due to mismatch between existing traffic supply and demand caused by continuous increase of car ownership, traffic congestion has become an increasingly acute problem and a major bottleneck hindering the sustainable development of the society and severely influencing urban residents’ life quality [2]
Due to continuous increase in urban transportation infrastructure to improve transportation network and supply, according to Downs’ Law, new road facilities will lead to new road demand, and the traffic demand always tends to be higher than the traffic supply [6]. erefore, large-scale construction of traffic infrastructure alone could hardly provide a fundamental Journal of Advanced Transportation solution to urban traffic problems
Summary
Composed of various traffic modes such as car, bus, and subway and different and mutual influencing parts for the system’s coordination and stability including pedestrians, vehicles, roads, environment, and other elements, modern urban traffic in China is considered as the basic condition for the city’s rapid and stable development and is meeting people’s increasing traffic demands to certain extent [1]. Due to mismatch between existing traffic supply and demand caused by continuous increase of car ownership, traffic congestion has become an increasingly acute problem and a major bottleneck hindering the sustainable development of the society and severely influencing urban residents’ life quality [2]. Given the comparatively bigger conflict between urban transportation structure and network, it is necessary to make investigation on urban residents travel behavior characteristics to find the existing problem in urban transportation structure and formulate corresponding traffic demand management measures so as to improve people’s travel quality, effectively relieve urban traffic congestion, and realize sustainable development of economy, society, and environment [9, 10]. A hierarchical logit model is used to begin their research with the morning and evening peak stage travel chain of the travel process analysis to describe urban residents’ interchanging mode choice behavior in direct driving, subway and parking, investigate travel mode choice and subway fare levels and parking charge strategy under different operating mechanism based on elastic demand balance equation, and reach the conclusion that the increase in parking fees and reduction of subway fares help to attract travelers choosing public transit as the travel mode [14]
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