le vine operationalising a new concept of accessibility to personal activities (rgs tgrg 2011)
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Operationalising a new concept of accessibility to personal activities
Scott Le Vine, Aruna Sivakumar, John PolakCentre for Transport Studies
Imperial College London
Martin Lee-GosselinUniversité Laval & Imperial College London
RGS-TGRG, 31st August 2011
With thanks to the RAC Foundation for Motoring
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Outline
• Motivation & concepts
• Preparation of empirical data
• Findings
• Implications
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Motivation• Understand and predict which mobility resources a
person owns
• MR: any product, service, status, or information that enables or facilitates travel in some way
• Some methods of travel may require one or several
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Motivation (2)
• Little rigorous analysis except w.r.t. car ownership (this is beginning to change)
• Typically:
owning a car = f(income, gender,
employment status, age, residential location, etc.)
What about how you expectyou’d use it?
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Accessibility concept
• Perceived activity set:
the array of activities which a person views as encompassing their travel needs when making decisions that structurally affect
their accessibility
• Hypothesis:
owning MRs = f(perceived activity set)
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Accessibility concept (2)
• “I need [want] to get to…”
– Park for recreation (each morning)
– Grocery shop (twice a week in afternoons)
– Granddaughter’s school (once a year, in the evening)
– Specific government office (bi-annually, at times which vary)
– Physician’s office (once every two months, varying times)
– etc.
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Accessibility concept (3)
• Activities defined by:
– Temporal attributes
– Spatial attributes
– Qualitative (motivation for activity, need to carry cargo, flexibility of scheduling & location, etc.)
• Activities in a person’s PAS:
– Need not be conscious needs/wants
– Need not be observable as revealed behaviour
– May be forward or backward-looking
– May vary in importance
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Mobility resources
• MRs not exclusive – depending on definition, may own none, one or several
• Some methods of travel require advance commitment MRs, others may not: e.g. taxi, walking
• Specify: a person [HH] composes a portfolio of MRs, weighing the benefits (in terms of ease of access to activities in their PAS) against the cost of owning MRs
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Specification• For some portfolio d of MRs...
• “Of the various methods of travel it enables, how well does the ‘best’ one get me to activity j”...
• Person i repeats this J times, once for each activity in their PAS, and then weighs the value against the costs of acquiring the MRs in portfolio d
𝑈𝑑𝑖 = 𝑉𝑑𝑖,𝑛𝑜𝑛−𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 + 𝑉𝑑𝑖,𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 + 𝜀𝑑𝑖 𝑉𝑑𝑖,𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 = ቌ 𝛾𝑗𝑖
𝐽𝑖𝑗𝑖=1 ∗ln 𝑒ቀ𝑉𝑚𝑗𝑖𝑖,𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 ቁ𝑀
𝑚∈𝜇𝑑ቍ
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Empirics• System of three market-traded,
durable MRs
• Thus 23 = 8 portfolios:
– A, B, C, AB, AC, BC, ABC, None
• Six methods of travel
– Drive car – Ride bicycle – Take Public transport – Ride as car passenger – Walk – Take taxi
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Modes of Travel
Drive Car
Public Transport
(Free)
Ride Bicycle
WalkTake
Taxicab
Public Transport
(PAYG)
Ride as car pax.
Portf
olio
s of r
esou
rces
Own Car 1 -- -- 1 1 1 1
Own PT Season Ticket
-- 1 -- 1 1 -- 1
Own Bicycle -- -- 1 1 1 1 1Own Car + PT Season Ticket
1 1 -- 1 1 -- 1
Own Car + Bicycle
1 -- 1 1 1 1 1
Own PT Season Ticket + Bicycle
-- 1 1 1 1 -- 1
Own Car + PT Season Ticket + Bicycle
1 1 1 1 1 -- 1
Own none of these
-- -- -- 1 1 1 1
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Example• Consider a person with a very simple PAS:
‘I need to get to the food store’‘I need to visit my daughter’
• If walking is ‘good’ for accessing both activities, (s)he is likely to own none of the MRs
• If a car is ‘good’ for both, he may just own a car
• If a bicycle is ‘good’ for getting to one, and a car for getting to the other, he may choose to own both a car and bicycle
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Example (2)• Consider a person with a very simple PAS:
‘I need to get to the food store’‘I need to visit my daughter’
• Bear in mind he may view his need to access one activity to be more important than the other
𝑉𝑑𝑖,𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 = ቌ 𝛾𝑗𝑖𝐽𝑖
𝑗𝑖=1 ∗ln 𝑒ቀ𝑉𝑚𝑗𝑖𝑖,𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 ቁ𝑀𝑚∈𝜇𝑑
ቍ
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Empirical data• PAS: weeklong trace of activity-travel pattern
• 300 London households from 2004/05 National Travel Survey (c.700 people / 10K journeys)
• Information on alternative journey itineraries: online travel planning services (Journey Planner and Transport Direct)
• We need to know the ease of access for each journey by various methods of travel
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Online travel planning services
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Findings• Model estimation successful (but slow)
• Various parameters estimated to have intuitive signs and magnitudes (see paper)
• Correlations between observations and predictions:
Car ownership: 0.41PT season ticket: 0.20Bicycle ownership: 0.06
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Findings (2)
-1,250
-1,240
-1,230
-1,220
-1,210
-1,200
-1,190
-1,180
-1,170
-1,160
-1,150
-1,140
-1,130
-1,120
-1,110
-1,100
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Log-
likel
ihoo
d
Number of journeys 'observed'
• Large gains from using long-duration diaries rather than one- or two-day diaries
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Findings (3)• Relative magnitude of salience parameters
Work / education: 0.34Shopping / personal business / other: 0.23Leisure: 0.19Social: 0.13Escort: 0.08
• So – access to each work activity is found to more strongly correlate with MR holdings than access to other activity types, but only moderately
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Findings (4)• Correct predictions
People observed to hold no MRs: 30%People observed to hold 1 MR:
30%People observed to hold 2 MRs:
18%People observed to hold 3 MRs:
6%
• Explanatory power inversely proportional to complexity of a person’s MR holdings
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Findings (5)
• Observed correlations in top right, predicted in bottom left
• In sum: Relatively weak both observed and predicted, but pattern not well replicated
Car
ownership
Public transport season ticket
ownership
Bicycle ownership
Car ownership -.07 .07
Public transport season ticket ownership .01 -.14
Bicycle ownership -.05 -.03
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Conclusions
• PAS concept found to be tractable
• Tight coupling between MR holdings & mobility patterns
• Several distinctive patterns in findings, mostly encouraging
• Broader aim is better predictions of responses to policy or market stimuli
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Conclusions (2)• PAS is latent, specifying it as revealed behaviour
may well introduce endogeneity and bias
• Directions for further research:
Address this issue of endogeneity
Subtler specification of MRs (car body styles, different PT season ticket offers, etc.)
Servicised MRs (car club subscription/use)
Thank you – contact: [email protected]