Abstract:

Because of the deficiency of conventional aggregate trip distribution model only considering single land use attraction variable, without including qualitative variables and hardly reflecting individual choice behavior, a new work destination choice model with aggregate alternatives, introducing size variables, is established in this paper. The application of this new model indicates that it contains multiple scale variables measuring land′s attraction degree as well as other discrete dummy variables. Furthermore, the model reflects individual′s destination choice behavior by introducing specific varibles of individual sociodemographics and mode chocies which interact with impedance.

Key words: engineering of communications and transportation, size variables, destination choice, trip distribution, aggregate alternative, logit model