European Journal of Engineering Science and Technology
ISSN2538-9181
Corresponding Author E-Mail Address: yavuz.delice@yalova.edu.tr
2538-9181/ © 2019 EJEST. All rights reserved.
Estimation of the Intrazonal Travel Time of Different Modes for the
Home-Based School Trips Using Regression Model
Yavuz Delice
1*
, Halit Özen
2
, and Ehsan Amirnazmiafshar
3
1
Yalova University, Department of Transportation Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,Yalova,
77200,Turkey.
2
Yildiz Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering,
Istanbul, 34220, Turkey.
3
Istanbul Technical University, Department of Transportation Engineering, Faculty of Civil
Engineering, Istanbul, 34469, Turkey.
ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT
Keywords:
Intrazonal trips, travel
time, home-based school
trips, regression mode.
In this study, the procedures for the estimation of intrazonal travel
time by using the OD survey is developed with more than 13000
participants conducted in Denizli city in Turkey. The city area was
subdivided several times as to provide 214 traffic analysis zones
(TAZ). For home-based school trips, the intrazonal travel time of
three different categorize of modes are studied including walking,
public transport, and all trip modes together. The all trip modes
model contains walking, public transport, private vehicle, and
subscription bus. The correlation between the average intrazonal
travel time and the most related factors, which have the important
effect on it, is designated from the survey. Some geographic and
especially socio-economic characteristics are investigated which
received the less attention in the past studies. The results show that
the population density of the TAZ has the highest effect on the
intrazonal travel time of walking mode. The number of links in the
network has the highest influence on the intrazonal travel time of the
public transport, and this factor for all trip modes together is the
population of the TAZ. Regarding these results and by using the
regression model, the equation for each category is obtained. The
finding shows that the best-fit trend for walking mode is logarithmic,
for public transport and all trip modes models are polynomial. By
testing the different values for transition points, the transition point
for each category is provided which are 10000 people/area for
walking mode, 800 link in the network for public transport and 15000
people for all trip modes.
Introduction
Sometimes, data related to the features of travel distribution patterns and street network are not
easily accessible to explicate the trips in cities. For instance, average intrazonal travel time in cities
affected by the characteristics of trips; environment and user profile which are not available to