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The inventory of housing near rail transit stations is rapidly expanding along urban railway corridors after a decade of its first operation in Bangkok, Thailand. This research examines whether residents those live and work as well near the transit stations are regular railway users. The relationship between location behavior and travel patterns should be investigated. The main objective of this paper is to scrutinize which factors are noted to have potential influence on travel choice behavior of the station-area residents at disaggregate level.
A discrete logit model is employed to jointly estimate the probability individuals having both origin and destination point within the station catchment area will commute by the rail, using an interview data of the transit-based residents, focusing on self-selection question. The basic statistics reveal the residents select residential locational choice that complies with their travel preference at high degree. The residents with a preference for traveling by the train move to live closer to the stations and become the regular passengers. Also, the results from discrete logit model explain that a positive attitude toward the rail transit can strongly influences rail commuting decision of the residents. This illustrates that the so-called self-selection has taken place. The station-area residents with high level of rail preference have a higher probability of commuting by transit than people without this preference. In addition, less out-of-vehicle time will give greater effect to at-tract more transit ridership. However, ability to use a car and parking space availability at destination have negative effect to the tendency to use the transit.
