HighlightsInvestigates bus passengers’ habitual route choice behaviours using smart card data.Introduces the concept of stickiness to describe a tendency of sticking to one route.Proposes Stickiness Index to quantify bus passengers’ route stickiness.Performs both longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses at a metropolitan-wide scale.

    AbstractThis paper explores how we can use smart card data for bus passengers to reveal individual and aggregate travel behaviour. More specifically, we measure the extent to which both individual and bus routes exhibit habitual behaviour. To achieve this, we introduce a metric called Stickiness Index to quantify the range of preferences of users that always select to travel on the same route (high stickiness) to those with a more varied patterns of route selection (low stickiness). Adopting a visual analytic and modelling approach using a suite of regression models we find evidence to suggest that stickiness varies across the metropolitan area and over a 24-h period wherein higher stickiness is associated with high frequency users where there is substantial variability of route travel times across all alternatives. We argue that our findings are important in their capacity to contribute to a new evidence base with the potential to inform the (re)-design and scheduling of a public transit systems through unveiling the complexities of transit behaviour.


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    Title :

    Route choice stickiness of public transport passengers: Measuring habitual bus ridership behaviour using smart card data


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    Publication date :

    2017-08-07


    Size :

    19 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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