Mode choice analysis of inter-island passenger travel from Iloilo to Negros Occidental, Philippines

Date of Publication

12-2013

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Civil Engineering

Subject Categories

Civil Engineering

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Civil Engineering

Thesis Adviser

Alexis M. Fillone

Defense Panel Chair

Grace Gueta

Defense Panel Member

Maria Cecilia Paringit
Renan Ma. Tanhueco

Abstract/Summary

Effectively managing inter-island travel is critical to the unified economic position of a country, especially for archipelagos like the Philippines, where interisland travel directly affects the local economy, its capacity for development, and even its basic functions. To efficiently manage a transport network, it is important to understand how the travelling population makes their travel mode choices, just as much as the operating characteristics of the network itself. This can be done by conducting a mode choice analysis of the travel network. This study covers the development of logit choice models, based on both revealed and stated preferences of the Iloilo-Negros Occidental travelling population. It was found that the most significant factor affecting travel mode choice is time, in both its aggregate and disaggregate forms. The value of travel time savings was computed to be at Php 87.89 / hour. Other travel mode characteristics, like cost and comfort, as well as socio-demographic information, like age and income class, were also found to affect the behavior of the traveller as well. Using the models developed, travel demand among the currently operating options, as well as those options that could come into operation upon the construction of the Panay-Guimaras-Negros (PGN) Bridges, were forecasted. It was found that if the PGN bridge project were to be constructed, approximately 78% of the travelling population, or over one (1) million travellers yearly, would transfer from their current choice to a public transport option, mostly towards the air-conditioned bus alternative.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Electronic

Accession Number

CDTG005549

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy, Sr. Hall

Keywords

Choice of transportation—Philippines—Visayan Islands

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